If you have ever used a PC, you are familiar with strange
                       filenames such as NDDEAPI.DLL, MSCDEX.EXE,
                       BOOTSECT.DAT, CONFIG.SYS, AWUPD.INF,
                       VFINTD.386, ODBCINST.INI. Sound like files left over
                       from DOS? Well, they are. Many users hoped (in vain) that
                       Windows 95 and Windows NT would eliminate these
                       kinds of files in the "8.3" name format in favor of names
                       that are more recognizable, especially since the icons for
                       these files are not always a clue as to where they might
                       need to go or what they might do. 

                       Since the Mac OS has always supported long filenames,
                       there are no "ghosts" from the past-unlike Windows,
                       which cannot escape its DOS legacy. A Mac OS
                       system-level file has a more user-friendly name, such as
                       "Startup Disk," "Sound Manager," or "Extensions
                       Manager Preferences." Macintosh icons also follow a
                       pattern. Extensions look like puzzle pieces and belong in
                       the Extensions folder, Control Panels have a "control
                       knob" and belong in the Control Panels folder, and so on.