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Easy as A, B, C

After a few pints of Old Fortran (thanks Colin Bell for the beer suggestion), in a corner of the Stack, Pete Sykes reminisces that ‘in my first job at Ferranti in 1977 we had an HP desktop computer with a rather basic operating system. There were 26 directories allowed, called a: b: c: and so on, with no other naming permitted. So we wrote up a list on paper so we would all know what to find in each directory.’
Pete wasn’t enjoying the job, so his contribution to this naming scheme: f:utilities. Grab a beermat, because we are pretty sure you can come up with suggestions for the content of the other 25 drives.

July 10, 2007 in backbytes | Permalink

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How about s:tools? :)

Posted by :James Irvine | July 11, 2007 9:54 AM

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