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- From: sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Apps putting their crap in system directories. :(
- Message-ID: <5872@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 23:00:41 GMT
- References: <BAB.92Nov11070823@se39.wg2.waii.com>
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
- Reply-To: sam_s@NeXT.com
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- bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:
- > As much as I like OS/2, its still a lot more like DOS than Unix in
- > terms of usability (IMHO, Unix > OS/2 >>>>> DOS).
-
- I think some of OS/2 yuckiest features are those it inherited from
- DOS where a new solution was called for. For example, device naming follows
- DOS conventions cobbled together from 10 years of graceless evolution. With a
- single disk, my DOS partition is "C:" and OS/2 resides on a partition it calls
- "D:". But if I plug in a second disk with a primary DOS partition, that drive
- inherits the "D:" letter, OS/2 decides it is on drive "E:" and OS/2 hangs badly
- during boot because my configuration has changed grossly in it's eyes.
-
- This is totally unacceptible. My unix software doesn't hang because I add
- another SCSI device (using the same exact hardware).
-
- -sam
-
- --
- Opinions expressed herein are not those of my employer. They're not even
- mine. They're probably wrong besides. How did they get in here, anyway?
-