Minor trivia point...John O'Fallon of Rumpus and I, in the dawn of
time
before OS X, figured out how to have Rumpus on OS 8 deal with > 31
character
file names. It was a total hack, but it worked really well, (up to
200 or so
characters IIRC). Anyone could have done it, but John was the only one
willing to "Think Different" and actually do it.
HFS+ has always supported long filenames, but the Classic Finder
didn't. Other stuff, like the Apple Java Runtime, used long names as
well, you just couldn't see them.
