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		Sharlin on May 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Sepa... 17-character file name, what madness is that? At best you could do BUDG0912.XSL or BU091282.XSL or something.

ncmncm on May 25, 2019 [–]

We're talking about MacOS now.

It was really common back then to put dates in file names, and names could be 32 characters long. Furthermore, you didn't need an extension because every file had a separate 4-byte (binary, but usually ASCII anyway) type.

Sharlin on May 25, 2019 | [–]

Who's talking about MacOS? The GP comment was top-level.

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