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> 3 character file extension limit when that is a throwback to FAT32 on pre-Windows 95 The 3 character file extension is much older than FAT32. It was part of
by jlv2 8y ago
> 3 character file extension limit when that is a throwback to FAT32 on pre-Windows 95
The 3 character file extension is much older than FAT32. It was part of the original FAT that was created nearly 20 years earlier, and later part of FAT12 and FAT16. But it predated all that in various other microcomputer DOS, as well as minicomputer systems going back into the 60s.
- laumars 8y agoYes, definitely! What I meant by my statement was no system has been dependant on a separate extension meta-property since FAT32 (pre-vfat). But yes, you're absolutely right that the 3 character extension standard is much older than FAT32. I didn't think it was quite as old as the 60s though? CP/M and FAT are mid-to-late 70s. VMS was around the same time too, or maybe slightly earlier. What else stored the extension as a separate meta-property to the file name?