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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
- Keywords: Unknown
- Message-ID: <899wPB2w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 13:59:06 CDT
- References: <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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- nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO BAR---NUNN) writes:
-
- [a fairly interesting rant, for the most part]
-
- > - MSDOS has got a pretty bad file management system.
- [...]
- > Secondly, It stores all the address pointers in one place, which to me,
- > seems pretty stupid. The C-64's method (which I think is a romper room
- > verion of CP/M), distributes it's pointers where the data is (it actually
- > links blocks together that store a given file).
-
- Well, if you lose the directory entry, you lose the file. Under the
- linked-block strategy, the same thing applies, though. And... if you
- use linked blocks, fseek(file,0,SEEK_END) takes bloody forever!
-
- > The UNIX system is perfect,
- > nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
-
- Perfect? Nawww.... nothing is perfect. But for the most part, I'd
- rather be writing for Unix than MS-DOS. The only thing is, my employer
- has all these DOS machines around. :-)
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