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by jcsiracusa 3855 days ago
If you'd like to learn more about resource forks on the Mac, which were a very clever solution to a difficult set of problems, please read this, written by the person who created them:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=The_Grand_Unified...

If you want to know more about the invention and early history of the Macintosh in general, there's tons more at http://www.folklore.org (or in the book based on it, Revolution in The Valley, by Andy Hertzfeld).