Bob Brown asks me:

> One of the first things I noticed about the directory when we started
messin'
> around with Spectrum machines (1988) was that the account, group, user,
and
> password names had been expanded to 16 characters.  That is to say, they
were
> stored in the directory in spaces that had *room* for 16 characters, not
that 16
> were actually allowed.  This led me to believe, at the time, that someday
these
> and file names would be no longer restricted to 8 characters.  D'ya
suppose that
> may have been a plan at one time?

Unfortunately, this is one I don't know.  Stan, Jeff V. or someone else
might know.  In '88 I was a humble VP of MIS for a mortgage company.  I was
too busy trying to keep the 70s running properly and didn't have access to
the spectrum boxes on a regular basis until I joined Bradmark in 1990.

This is an interesting question though!

LB