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I've wondered the same. I think it's maybe users wanting to mark the executables same way as with Dos.

Linux wasn't a popular thing when Amiga was still relevant for larger audience, so maybe people were not used to permission bits like nowadays. I mean people of course used Unixes in universities etc. but it was not popular at homes. But it's just my theory, would be great to hear other takes on this.

And sorry, I've been using too much Slack. In Slack you can start forum threads directly from oneliners. It's pretty cool.

Maybe one could decrunch all archives in scene.org and find the earliest use of .exe ? Not sure how to find out the earliest use. For me it was always to make it easy to see which one in this jumple of files is the one that runs the demo. Sometimes you'd get tripped and there would a script with some assigns and other stuff that you should have run instead though.

Hey hot multimedia. Thanks for picking the topic up here. You‘re probably right. Let‘s see if we find out here.

wasnt it also a thing on AMIGAAA to put the extension in front of the filename?

mod.obviously

Lots of modules were named mod.*.*

But I think it was merely a convention, OS didn't specify anything about them

While we're at it... who invented the ".xex" extension on Atari? And is it pronounced "zex" as my mind-voice renders it?

I always pronounce it the only good way the letter X can be

"ksehks". I will never agree for X being pronounced as "zee"... Also it's "zed-ecks", not "zee-ecks" for you spectrumers ;p
Anyway, I think it was invented for Altirra?