25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
3:03 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
I had a cop-rogrammer at one point who insisted that
MacOS was based on
MS-DOS. :)
Have you noticed some of the really odd structures in the DIRectory of the
early Mac formats?
(linked list table (MICROS~1 calls theirs a F.A.T.) made up of 12 bit
entries!) Could that be coincidence? No. just a severe shortage of
competent systems programmers resulting in a number of programmers and
ideas in common.