Seeking Monsieur Joliet

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Apr 14 21:16:16 UTC 2007


"Frank Mitchell" <mitchell at wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> writes:
> Some folks rubbish the Joliet CD File System because Microsoft use
> it. But can anybody identify an actual Monsieur Joliet who invented
> it?  Presumably he exists somewhere. Was he in fact a Microsoft
> employee?

No, it's named for Joliet, Illinois.  It originated in Windows 95
which was at the time codenamed Chicago.

DES
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