The End of MICROS~1.TXT (PCGH-Retro July 06)
File names on the PC are longer than eight characters – this happened on July 6th. Every day, PC Games Hardware dares to take a look back at the young but eventful history of the computer.
… 1992: Just as there is a world market for half a dozen computers and everyone should get by with 640 KiByte RAM, file names with eight characters before the ending are enough. At least in the DOS era. But Microsoft is an innovative and far-sighted company and would like to get rid of this problem under Windows 95 with the new FAT32 file system. Incidentally, FAT stands for File Allocation Table and not for the new range of file names.
These can after a patent dated – correct – July 6th, submitted by Miller and Kimura for a Microsoft Corporation from Redmond, Washington, are significantly longer than before. This is how MICROS~1.TXT becomes Microsoft.txt and the file PCGAME~1.bat finally becomes PC Games Hardware.bat, because the new file system can even handle spaces.
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