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

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 07:23 PM 10/18/04 -0700, Alex wrote:
>There were enough systems with better methods that predated Win 95 that 
>it didn't take a crystal ball see that MS was putting forth a really 
>poor solution.

Just because something existed doesn't mean it mattered. In latter-day
consumer products, only Mac and PC ever really mattered. And in that world,
precedent was all internal (or stolen from each other).

So with perfect hindsight, you find it easy to see what MS did wrong. Too
bad nobody *except* Apple or MS ever did anything right enough to succeed
as consumer products, eh? Their crystal balls were so doggone cloudy, they
perfected themselves into insignificance.

By and large, such retrospective criticism tends more toward envy. ;)

Dennis