From: "Geo." 

Another example, Pagemaker was invented during the dos days but it always
came with a windows runtime version back then. The actual app name is
pm.xxx but the application name in the GUI was "Pagemaker" which
wasn't possible with DOS's 8x3 naming.

Geo.

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:27:26 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> >news:qncftu091lf291h57i2sb9d4i5m6744p3l{at}4ax.com...
> >
> >> > It's like they work at it.
> >>
> >> They do. (though it appears to be changing as Linux becomes more
> >> mainstream...)
> >
> >I don't think it has to do with mainstream, Mac also has descriptive
names.
>
>
> Thanks for proving my point. Mac was aimed at the mainstream from the
> beginning.
>
>   /m

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