25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
3:50 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
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.
Atari's TOS wasn't based on MS-DOS either, and it used the exact
same filesystem.
To answer your rhetorical question, actually, I hadn't noticed.
I did notice that it was significantly different from ODS-2. :)
Perhaps I need to be more clear here -- this guy really thought
that somewhere underneath the Mac GUI, there was a copy of MS-DOS
on every Macintosh. He had nothing to offer as proof, except that
no computer could possibly function without it. (I'm really
serious here...)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
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