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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92252.141443ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 12:14:43 GMT
- References: <ewright.714687708@convex.convex.com> <92239
- <ewright.714845483@convex.convex.com> <1992Aug27.202129.12780@CS.ORST.EDU>
- <ewright.714954330@convex.convex.com> <92241.112023ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- <la4tfoINN43d@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <la4tfoINN43d@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>, fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM
- (steve hix) says:
- >
- >In article <92241.112023ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
- >>>Okay. Let's measure performance based on some simple, but meaningful,
- >>>task. Now, insert a floppy disk into your computer and change its
- >>>name from "A:" to "Price Carl Wayne's floppy." Time yourself to see
- >>>how long it takes. I'll do the same thing. You have a decided advantage,
- >>>since my Mac is not here at work and it will take me a few hours to get
- >>>home. I'll be generous enough to include that time to my benchmark. :-)
- >>>
- >>Where is the problem ? Do you think I can`t do this on my PC ?
- >
- >Doesn't "Price Carl Wayne's floppy" sort of violate some disk naming
- >convention
- >on the PC?
-
- No it doesn`t and yes it does. The name of the diskette is not A: it is a name
- of up to 11 characters that is almost never used. At least I don`t know anyone
- who gives names to his floppies (except mac users exchanging disks with PC`s).
- A: is the name of the DRIVE and that can be changed to almost everything. Just
- ALT-click on the disk icon title and type something you like. That only works
- in WPS but in a command line window nobody would like to use a drive name like
- "Price Carl Wayne`s floppy"
-
- Michael Bode.
-