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
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25 Apr
25 Apr
4:36 p.m.
> 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.
I have to object here. TOS had with GEMDOS a part which is a straight
clone of MS DOS. Not more nor less.
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...)
Well .. weired...
Gruss
H.
--
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10:03 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
Atari's TOS wasn't based on MS-DOS either, and
it used the exact
same filesystem.
Their disk format was definitely and deliberately intended to be an exact
replication of the documented MS-DOS disk format.
I doubt that anything other than the disk format resembles any part of
MS-DOS.
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...)
Did he also think that the 68000 was a copy of the 8086?
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