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Originally Posted by Quoth
It's not to do with computer speed, but the design of CP/M in 1976, which the "bought in DOS" by MS had copied. Hiding the ending makes it worse.
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Which had everything to do with speed. Reading the contents of files to determine their type wasn’t an option on linear access storage like tape, and very slow on single sided floppy disks. Extra metadata wasn’t an option either when the entire disk held 160k.