Solving the UTF-8 problem

[John Cowan]

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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Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead               John Cowan
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          some years ago