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		cschep on Sept 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t use “My” in UI elements. I think by 8.3, he meant DOS 8.3 ?

rlm on Sept 22, 2010 [–]

8.3 refers to: 8 chars, a dot, 3 chars, which was the limit for filenames.

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