25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
3:30 p.m.
Probably straight out of some textbook.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:03 PM
Subject: RE: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
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.