Parents drawn to short baby names have more choices than ever, including both new and trendy names and classic names with ancient histories. Names that used to be exclusively nicknames are now ...

The 8-character file names originating with DOS and also used in Windows. See Win short file names. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

For compatibility with earlier 16-bit DOS and Windows 3.1 applications, Windows 95/98 created an 8.3 short name that was maintained alongside the long name. That compatibility was dropped in ...