Sargon library gets Ddoc macro processor

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 7 12:57:04 PST 2015


On 1/7/2015 3:46 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> I guess those where the times when unmount has been abbreviated to umount.
> Typing must have been really hard.

It had to do with file extensions for macro assembler being .MAC, and people 
just wound up calling them "mac" files.

Just like people call assembler files "asm" files today.

"umount" likely is related to max 6 character filenames in older systems.


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