"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:
>> (A funny side note: subconsciously, I chose the name "fildes.7" as to >> not go over eight characters; it came to me naturally after many years >> of working with and on Unix-like systems, this archaic element simply >> lodged itself into my instincts after some time.) > > Eight's an odd choice for that, though. As I understand it, the Fortran > linker that Unix originally used (C did not exist yet) had a limit of 6 > characters for externally resolvable symbols, because that was all some > IBM operating system could handle. File names (or "path name > components", if one insists) were limited to 14 characters until the > Berkeley "fast" file system. The tuhs at tuhs dot org is a more > reliable resource than I can be here, though. Heh, some confusion it seems. No idea where I got eight from. -- Arsen Arsenović
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