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- From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: OS/MFT and Macintosh (was: ..History)
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 12:31:11 GMT
- References: <PCG.92Aug26005248@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <1992Aug26.150429.462@sctc.com>
- Reply-To: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor)
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- In article <1992Aug26.150429.462@sctc.com>, smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes:
- |> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- |>
- |> >Hey, the Mac OS technology is middle sixties vintage
- |> >(OS/MFT!),
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- |> As a point of fact, OS/MFT's operating system technology bears almost
- |> resemblance to the Mac OS. OS/MFT provided a "flat" file system. OS/MFT
- |> provided a _fixed_ number of concurrently active tasks, while the Mac
- |> OS is limited by the available memory (at least in my experience).
- The earlier versions of the Mac system had a flat filesystem, even with
- folders, file names were global, and only one task could run at a time
- (remember switcher?).
- Ian W. Moor
- iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing, Imperial College.
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