Timeline for When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?
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| Feb 3, 2023 at 9:26 | comment | added | IMSoP | @hippietrail I mis-spoke; it was Acorn RiscOS that I was thinking of. | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 7:29 | comment | added | hippietrail | @IMSoP On the Amiga an "application" was just an executable file. The term "application" was not used though. Me and my friends called them "programs". I can't remember what the Amiga docs called them. AmigaOS did not have a native concept of resources either in the program file or external files. Some programs had only the binary executable file and some had a bunch of files and directories in custom formats. So I don't think "application as magic directory" is correct any way I interpret it. | |
| Jan 18, 2023 at 1:25 | comment | added | Raffzahn | You may want to incorporate footnote#1 direct into the text, as PARC had them before, which is were Jobs (probably) saw the concept first. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 21:07 | comment | added | IMSoP | After carefully explaining in the first paragraph that you're talking about the original MacOS, you immediately switch to talking about applications on the modern (Unix-based) macOS. Applications on the original MacOS were single files, with additional elements stored in their resource fork. I believe the Amiga Workbench used the "application as magic directory" technique, but the relationship of the whole thing to the "directory" vs "folder" distinction seems tenuous. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 11:35 | comment | added | Steve | On "files", I would guess a "file" was primarily conceived as containing organised data - so the basic unit of a file system, the file, is something that practically always has some further internal structure. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 9:36 | history | answered | JeremyP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |