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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:07:45 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        George Davidovich <freebsd@optimis.net>
Subject:   Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!
Message-ID:  <200908171707.47934.erich@apsara.com.sg>
In-Reply-To: <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <980215.56754.qm@web58307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090816172801.GA84244@marvin.optimis.net> <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Hi,

On 17 August 2009 pm 16:25:29 Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:28:01 -0700, George Davidovich 
<freebsd@optimis.net> wrote:
> > Sorry, but while I agree the MICROS~1 pejorative can be a bit
> > juvenile and uncalled for, your assertion that 8.3 filenames
> > are a thing of the past is incorrect.
>
> Furthermore, I think it wasn't a "gain of comfort" MICROS~1
> (sorry, can't resist) inventet. As far as I remember, CP/M had
> 8.3 filenames too, and that was prior to DOS. (It only hadn't
> directories).
>
wasn't it DEC with their RT-11 and RSX-11 operating systems 
introducing this concept which was then copied by Intel for the 
8080 development systems?

> By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to
> be unique within the first 6 (six) letters? :-)

Hey, memory was real rare those days.

Erich



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