[PLUG] OK, GUI file managers all suck

[Richard C. Steffens]

John Jason Jordan wrote:

>>FWIW, folders are really a windowsism.  It's a directory...
> 
> 
> They are now. In Windows they were always directories too, until
> Microsoft purloined the term from Apple. Apple probably stole it from
> someone else before them, too. But Apple is as far back as my memory
> goes. Personally, I'd rather just call 'em pigeonholes.

Both Apple and MS hired guru's from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 
where the mouse and windows were invented.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens