Re: New to FC
- From: ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin)
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:46:04 -0600
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in article
<q_Gdh.8387$wc5.7080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Hackney wrote:
Moe Trin wrote:
Your use of the term 'folder' suggests you are also new to *nix. 'folder'
In *nix (as in DOS) they are called 'directories'.
Better put on some Chap Stick Old Guy....
Nautilus calls them "Files and Folders".
Must have been written by Borg insurgents.
Oh, so Nautilus stole the term from microsoft who stole it from Apple
who stole it from Xerox? (Global-Pig was back in the early 1980s and
was running on a Xerox 6085 Daybreak - a 6 MHz 8086. Steve Jobs saw it
at PARC and ran with it.)
Old guy
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