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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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Exactly. A manila folder icon. Which is where the name folder came from even. A folder is inside of a program for storage such as your email program.A directory is created in the filesystem.
For example,, on a Windows computer, Windows is a directory, not a folder.