In article , Diesel
wrote:

Which merely means that I got some of my old IT history a bit
blended, by using the original name instead of the more recent
(and PC based) one.

It's not a 'more recent' name unless you think 1980 is recent...
and, it wasn't originated on PCs, either...Especially considering
that the first PC didn't arrive until 1981...

1977, and arguably earlier if you consider hobbyist computers.

1981 was when the ibm pc came out, but it certainly was not first.

The file format
originates on UNIX based systems, and, they weren't PCs in the IBM
compatible sense of the word...

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/ta...l/ch05s01.html

so what? unix is very primitive, with .newsrc files being one of many
examples.

rest of your garbage snipped.