Seeking Monsieur Joliet

[rloefgren at forethought.net]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> "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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Ha! Tres apropo. Illinois has a very old state prison in Joliet. We used 
to swing by it for a look-see on the way to Chicago to buy bicycles and 
pizza. It was scary to see; quite a deterrent.

r