On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:03 PM, Kyle Smeby wrote:
Although I always thought the dot-three naming convention was a little over simplistic, since only one application could control any one file type.File extensions were around *long* before Bill Gates was shaving. They came into existence with UNIX. And to be fair on Mac you generally have only one app that handles one filetype as well, but it's based in creator/type strings attached to the program rather than file extensions.
Actually the file system in OS X is where Apple has taken a lot of flak for not more closely emulating Be OS.It's a flavor of BSD UNIX. I'm not sure how "close" to Be they could have got it; starting with a stable open 'nix release really was a better decision, I think, rather than trying to reverse engineer someone else's software entirely.
I'm still wondering when there'll be a Quartz/Aqua port to Intel. Heh heh.
-- WthmO
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