Timeline for answer to Why did Microsoft choose the word "Recycle Bin"? by Bart Gijssens
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 6:21 | comment | added | Bart Gijssens | @uliwitness: so how about everybody answering TOS, AmigaOS, OS/2 just to name a few? | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | uliwitness | Everyone answering DOS or Unix command prompt: We're talking about use of the "Trash can" icon and metaphor here, not about general deletion. Similarly, if the recycle bin actually occasionally deletes its contents, that is not an argument in favor of the claim that the "trash" icon always meant "delete immediately" at the time. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 23:19 | comment | added | Bennett McElwee | [citation needed] | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 9:42 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Luke: The hard drive space is "recycled" much more immediately when directly deleting a file, explicitly circumventing the recycle bin. I think the explanation by this answer, that recycling refers to files which are restored from the recycle bin again, is much more likely. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | Bart Gijssens | @uliwitness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS, toastytech.com/guis/os24.html | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 16:34 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @uliwitness well, Windows deletes immediately in several cases: if there's no room (memory) to store in the trash, or if you're deleting a file on a server-mount which doesn't allow you to dump to a "global" recycle bin. | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 22:01 | comment | added | user | @uliwitness OS/2 in 1992 had the "shredder" which immediately deleted any file dropped on it. Here are screenshots of OS/2 2.0, including one of the default desktop, showing the shredder icon (bottom right). | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 17:24 | comment | added | phuclv |
@PhilPerry not only DOS, Unix rm command also deletes the file permanently
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| Apr 18, 2014 at 16:33 | comment | added | Luke | It also could be "recycling" your harddrive space. | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 15:27 | comment | added | Phil Perry | DOS command prompt (erase command). | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 12:57 | comment | added | uliwitness | That was definitely not the case for the Mac (arguably the first to popularize having a trash instead of just pressing the delete key). What OSes do you know that immediately delete files put in the trash? | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 10:01 | history | edited | Bart Gijssens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2014 at 9:36 | history | answered | Bart Gijssens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
