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To be fair, it was 8 plus 3 characters in DOS, which with the separator dot would translate to 12 characters on Unix.

• jaoane 1y ago
  Just to be clear the dot wasn’t stored in the DOS FAT. Therefore a name would take up 11 bytes.
  • layer8 1y ago
    Yes, and just to be clear, presenting that name with the same readability under Unix would take up 12 bytes. Or for example, just copying files from DOS to Unix.