No, the problem is that there were all kinds of interesting non-Unixy implementations of files out there <i>and they were all incompatible with each other</i>. For example, VMS supported file versioning and record-based files, neither of which Macs supported, but in turn had no way of supporting resource forks. Similarly, NTFS supports alternate data streams which can store a resource fork, but Mac Classic had no way of storing other alternate data streams. The Internet forced everyone to use Unix&#x27;s idea of files because it&#x27;s the only subset of functionality that actually worked between more than one platform.