What were AFM font files for?

Considering that Adobe Font Folio provides and AFAIK always provided PostScript Type 1 fonts, in its Mac version, with outline files + a suitcase file per family that supposedly included the font metrics in its resource fork, and in its Windows versions, with PFB outline files + PFM metrics files, what were AFM file ever intended for? Why did Adobe also include those? What were their purported use case? As a matter of fact, wasn't every other foundry providing PostScript Type 1 fonts in the same way? In what case would one ever need those AFM files for, even back in the day?

Back in the day, there were applications that used the .afm files to obtain metrics beyond those put into the .pfm files on Windows or the so-called screen fonts on the Mac. And for that matter, there were also applications that ran on raw MS-DOS and/or UNIX that didn't support the other metrics mechanisms.
Also, ATM (Adobe Type Manager, not the cash machine) had the capability of creating .pfm files from a combination of the .pfb file and corresponding .inf and .afm files delivered in the early font packages which often did not have a .pfm file.
Obviously, with OpenType fonts, the need for all those other files has gone away.
- Dov

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