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Originally Posted by JSWolf
A folder is what's used in your email program. It's an organizing structure that's not part of the file system. A directory is part of the filesystem. That's the difference.
It's because someone designed the icon for a directory to look like a manila folder is why the name folder is being incorrectly used.
A directory is not a folder. It never has been.
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Jon, you are so very, very wrong.
When I look back to Byte magazine, April, 1982 (vol 7 #4) which had an article on the design of the Xerox Star GUI, it refers to putting documents into folders or file drawers with the icon indeed looking like a manila folder. See the attached image and the pdf of the Byte article for more information.