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DNSB · 06-02-2024, 11:10 PM

I could have sworn that the file system had nothing to do with the file associations since that information is stored in the registry. That worked when I was running Windows on a FAT16 filesystem. A database can be stored on a file system but confusing the database with the file system is risible. Hmmm... I remember running DB2 on an AIX system using JFS. Does that mean that JFS was a database? Or perhaps Windows 98 on a FAT16 system?

Admittedly since one of my tasks was database administrator, I do tend to laugh at people who claim that a CSV file is a database.

Would you support a claim that a floppy disk containing an installer for MS-DOS 3.0 was a database? It had a filesystem, after all. Perhaps an old CP/M boot diskette?

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DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,092 Karma: 169815798 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I could have sworn that the file system had nothing to do with the file associations since that information is stored in the registry. That worked when I was running Windows on a FAT16 filesystem. A database can be stored on a file system but confusing the database with the file system is risible. Hmmm... I remember running DB2 on an AIX system using JFS. Does that mean that JFS was a database? Or perhaps Windows 98 on a FAT16 system? Admittedly since one of my tasks was database administrator, I do tend to laugh at people who claim that a CSV file is a database. Would you support a claim that a floppy disk containing an installer for MS-DOS 3.0 was a database? It had a filesystem, after all. Perhaps an old CP/M boot diskette? Last edited by DNSB; 06-02-2024 at 11:14 PM.