Other File Systems
Prior to the release of OS/2 and Windows NT, one of the first file systems to support long names and spaces was the Macintosh File System, written for the original version of Mac OS on the Macintosh 128K released in January 1984. Although the Macintosh File System supported file names up to 255 characters in length, at the time Finder only allowed up to 63 characters. With the release of the Hierarchical File System (HFS) in September 1985, the maximum file name length allowed by the file system was reduced to 31 characters. When the Finder was re-written for System 7, the maximum file name length was dropped to 31, matching the maximum allowed by the file system. In January 1998, Apple released Mac OS 8.1 with HFS Plus, which included support for 255 character file names; however, Finder continued to limit names to 31 characters until Mac OS X.
AmigaOS in 1985 allowed up to 30 characters in a filename.
Novell NetWare versions 3.x and 4.x volumes can also support Microsoft-compatible long filenames, by loading an additional NetWare Loadable Module (NLM).
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