A brief history of bundles

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A brief history of bundles

In the elegant simplicity of Classic Mac OS, applications were intended to be single files with much of their contents stored in their resource fork, where they kept all the paraphernalia they required, from code resources to windows, icons and dialogs. This is QuarkXPress version 4.11 from around 2000, its resources displayed in the resource editor ResEdit. The app icons shown are stored in a resource of type BNDL, a ‘bundle’, but not in the la…