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Originally Posted by j.p.s
International Standards Organization, which has thousands of standards.
ISO 9660 happens to be a standard for a computer file system on compact disc. About the time typical hard disks became much larger than compact disc capacity, it became common to save bit for bit raw contents of of compact discs as a single file, often with the file name extension iso.
Some operating systems can mount such a so-called "disk image" as a virtual disk drive.
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Windows 8 (presumably 10) will mount ISOs directly. I think Microsoft provided a utility for previous versions that enabled this. I used it quite a bit.
Mac OS and Linux also will mount them.