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Re: Questions on EDASM reloc ($FE) files

Paul Schlyter wrote:

In article <nospam-D69CDA.00073011042006@network-065-024-007-028.columbus.rr.com>,


In article <JbadncanU4w_OafZnZ2dnUVZ_v-dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:


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There are many more "typed" files now in the world, even the Apple II
world, than Apple "allocated".  The vast majority of these files are
stored as "BIN" files, and the actual "typing" resides outside the
file system as file naming conventions and programmed validity checks.

This is a case in which the PC convention



This is not just a "PC convention".  The same convention was used in
both Unix and VMS, two OS'es which predated the PC.  CP/M borrowed that
convention, MS-DOS inherited it from CP/M and Windows inherited it from
MS-DOS.


Of course.  I referred to the PC environment only as its most
pervasive current use, not its origin.  Naming conventions have a
long and noble history.  I have no doubt that they significantly
predate minicomputers, and, indeed, computers.  ;-)

-michael

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