From: "Wayne" To: "Mr M S Aitchison" Cc: "OpenDOS" Subject: Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:44:58 +1100 Message-ID: <01bcde6a$93f8ff80$eb8125cb@client.whack.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk You really don't need to to look at the source. Just fool around with the system for a few hours a day and you will find neat stuff that will bring a computer to its knees. Or better still to kill the harddrive temporarily. Wayne -----Original Message----- From: Mr M S Aitchison To: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wednesday, October 22, 1997 9:07 AM Subject: Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0) >Okay, I'm convinced it is a good idea... especially the potential for >easier porting of software. Would the current limitations of DOS >character devices be okay for an OpenDOS /dev/fd0 or /dev/hda6, etc?? >I still think there are some non-trivial (but certainly possible) >changes needed to take advantage of such devices. > >But I won't say any more until I look at some source code so I know >something about what I'm talking about (I've heard that's a good idea :-). > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Mark Aitchison, \_ Phone: +64 3 364-2947 home 337-1225 >Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Canterbury, /) E-mail: phys169 AT csc DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz >Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND. (/' www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~physmsa >-------------------------------------------------------------------------