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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by wazoox on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:40AM (#21122919)
MS-DOS. The reason is MS-DOS.
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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by hendi_ on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:08AM (#21123110)
Thank you for the EXPLAN~1!
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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by XJ6 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:42AM (#21123296)
If anyone's curious this references the 8.3 filename shortening that windows was even still doing recently.

Amusingly, that tiny bit of backward compatibility can lead to vulnerabilities as outlined here: https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/windows-short-8-3-fil...

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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by tomatocracy on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:44AM (#21125827)
It goes back further than that - DOS got the idea of 8.3 filenames from CP/M and before that DEC used three letter file extensions on its minicomputer operating systems. The idea arguably goes back even further into the mainframes of the 1960s although it gets a bit messier then to trace it.
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