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From: garbanzo AT hooked DOT net (Alex)
Subject: Re: pathname conversion
23 Sep 1997 18:39:48 -0700 :
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Mikey wrote:

> Because Microsoft's programmers are IDIOTS, and 
> have been ever since 1982 when dos 1 came out

Not really MS's fault, they just extended CP/M.
 
> All of these file system features have been around 
> since before dos 1 was released, at first via a file system
> called minix, and more recently and in an even more advanced
> form called ext2, try installing a real OS, called linux.

Please don't even start with Linux is a real OS, after all it wasn't the
first "Unix" and it's not even a real Unix. Ext2fs isn't all that
great, I for one like ufs in a BSD form, although SYSV's form isn't _too_
bad per se.
 
- alex

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