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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Portable?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.171832.29416@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:18:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul11.050428.26185@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul11.050428.26185@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- [...]
- > Incidently, do yourself a favor with NT: don't bother incorporating
- > FAT into the MIPS and Alpha incarnations. What's the point?
- > (Actually, I'm sure someone will come up with an interesting idea as
- > to why FAT should be supported on NT/Alpha, NT/MIPS. Thoughts?)
-
- Simple. A common floppy format across differen workstations would be
- a great idea. Suns can read DOS-formatted disks right now. Macs can.
- Amigas can. etc. Heck, even Yamaha synthesizers can read
- DOS-formatted disks!
-
- Although I don't think the DOS-FAT format is the best format for
- interchange, it's quickly becoming a de-facto standard in the computer
- world. Why not run with it and make it a real standard.
-
- Personally, I think it's a waste of networking to ftp a program into
- the workstation on the other side of the room when I can just slip a
- floppy into it. By that same token, I'd like to be able to ftp from
- an InterNet site (like ftp-os2) into a workstation, and then just copy
- it to a floppy and bring it home. Right now, I have to zmodem-
- download it from the workstation into a PC to do this.
-
- I can get this effect with some Suns, but it'd be nice if all
- workstations worked this way.
-
- After this, all we need is a way for PC's to read Unix-standard tapes
- and make that a standard on this end of the processor spectrum.
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