Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 2025-04-28 20:12, John Ames wrote:

On 28 Apr 2025 17:49:48 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

although that might be an argument for case insensitivity.

 Just so, it seems to me. Of course it's many years too late for *nix to
course-correct on this, but it was a stupid design decision in 1970 and
it remains stupid now. Well, such is the nature of things in this vale
of sin and tears...

It was very easy to do on MsDOS when they took that decision. Character set was extended ASCII, so just ad a binary 1 somewhere.
It is easy to say on retrospect that it was the wrong decision.
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Cheers, Carlos.