>"directory" doesn't describe the way the UI appears to behave That rather begs the question though, doesn't it? To a nontechnical user, the ship has sailed -

>"directory" doesn't describe the way the UI appears to behave That rather begs the question though, doesn't it? To a nontechnical user, the ship has sailed - everyone calls them "folders", the icons are ubiquitously pictures of file folders, and it would be terribly confusing to try and change it now. That doesn't mean it was the right choice though. I could imagine a world where the icons were little phone books, and the concept of a hard link didn't require a half-hour explanation.