[mdlug] The new "surface" computer

[G Balaji]

On 7/18/07, Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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I am not familiar with Amiga. In Amiga, how were files associated with
applications? Was the operating system aware of the
file-header-application association?

-B.