[Virtualacorn-list] File Names

[Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn]

Mik Towse <mik.towse at xemik.com> wrote:

> As an aside, why does Windows call its directories 'folders' when to
> display them under DOS used a DIR command? :-/

I'd guess that when the first version of Windows came out and the designers
had been thinking about the graphic representation of directories, they
decided a picture of a folder would make sense to people (as a general
container), whereas a pic of - say - a phone directory, would not. 

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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.