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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: z/PDOS-generic
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:37:56 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <20240722090730.00004866@gmail.com>,
John Ames  <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:22:26 -0000 (UTC)
>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
>> I can't think of any now for which that would be true.  Maybe
>> DOS/VS or something?
>
>TENEX's six-character filename limit is the reason Colossal Cave
>Adventure is also known as ADVENT ;)

Oh, I thought we were being specific to IBM mainframes,
which is almost certainly what the OP was talking about.

ITS certainly had six-character filenames, as did TOPS-10 IIRC,
but TENEX had no such limit; consider the existence of
<SYSTEM>DIRECTORY, for instance.  Certainly, any unreasonably
short name limit did not survive into TOPS-20.

https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex/blob/master/pdf/TEN-SYS-2.pdf
suggests that the "primary name string" is of
"indefinite length".

>> The idea of a PC operating system on a mainframe is silly.
>
>No argument there. But there's room in life for silliness.

Indeed.  I don't think OP is making that distinction, though.

	- Dan C.