Solving the UTF-8 problem
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Mon Jul 16 17:42:07 CEST 2007
Doug Ewell scripsit:
> As for "txt", this is indeed the de-facto standard for text files under
> Windows (and not "text"), going back to the MS-DOS days of 3-letter
> extensions.
Indeed, 3-letter extensions go back at least to the first release of the
TOPS-10 operating system (a timesharing system for Digital Equipment
Corporation's PDP-10 architecture) in 1964. Many extensions still in
use on Windows today, notably .sys, .exe, .pas, .bak, .hlp, .txt,
.log, .cmd, .tmp, and .dat date back to that early OS.
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