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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 01:32:55 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  2 Feb 97 at 17:19) Ian 'DrDebug' Day said:

> look too hard, now, does it? Come on, someone could write a TSR >that
> implements it on top of FAT, either as VFAT or using look-up files >without
> much difficulty.
> 
> TSR?  Are you on drugs?  It would be far better if we were to compile
> the components that you want into IBMDOS.SYS (or whatever).  This would
> provide the fastest system possible.
Nope. IBMDOS.COM should be kept as small as possible, and how do you imagine 
adding up new file systems? Recompile IBMDOS.COM every time!?

> And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable modules
> (a bit like VLMs).
Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a standard for 
these drivers.

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