File extensions, was: Re: [Coco] Portal-9 bug report

[Ward Griffiths]

On Monday 18 October 2004 08:31 pm, Robert Emery wrote:
> --- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> > It isn't odd. Extensions are a Windows operating system thing, not
> > a user thing -- and similar to the Mac approach, which uses (used?)
> > no filename extensions.
>
> Macs have file extensions, and so do CoCo's... neither of which runs
> Windows, thank goodness.
>
> > Windows 95 borrowed a great deal of the Mac approach, and it
> > succeeded in how incredibly Win95 took off in comparison to Win3.1.
>
> That's mainly because you could install 95 without knowing DOS.

Actually, rather few "normal" users ever install Win 95 or any of its 
successors.  They just buy preinstalled machines.  I'd say maybe 10%, 
tops, can install from scratch.
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