[mdlug] The new "surface" computer
Garry Stahl
tesral at comcast.net
Wed Jul 18 16:17:25 EDT 2007
Robert Adkins wrote:
> Anyway, what got me thinking about this is some stuff I was reading
> regarding a need for people to start using the metadata features of file
> systems (I believe even FAT32 can do this) to get away from the finite
> combination of the three letter extension. This was talked up regarding
> the metadata capabilities of Linux and certain Desktop Environments.
> It's been a while since I read this stuff so my memory could be slightly
> off.
>
Amiga (yea that again) uses file headers in that fashion from the very
start. Learning to add file extensions was something I had to do once I
started using DOS based systems.
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