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- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 18:24:28 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: busscheh@ksepl.nl
- In-Reply-To: Egbert Jan van den Bussche's message of 23 Feb 1994 10:50:07 +0100 <01H980D412PU8ZFGOB@ksla.nl>
- Subject: xfs and such
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- >Thanks Claus for replying. Maybe we will once see a new ATARI ROM set with
- >MiNT/MFS/TOSWin (or /X11???) for our dear ATARI computers instead of TOS
- >and forget about TOS compatibility. Native TOS format disks could always be
- >read with 'mtools' like programs, I assume.
-
- I disagree; if I wanted to forget about TOS compatibility I'd just go
- buy a 486 and run Linux. Remember that the whole idea behind MiNT is
- to provide UNIXish features *without* forgoing backwards-compatibility.
-
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- entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.
- Personal mail: entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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- "what do you have against octal?" -jrb
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