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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga ???
Message-ID: <435@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 15:45:07 GMT
References: <1610@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <1989Jul13.124053.27543@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <2882@ast.cs.vu.nl> <7336@cbmvax.UUCP> <1989Jul24.120703.15722@qtnet.uucp>
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In article <1989Jul24.120703.15722@qtnet.uucp> nick@qtnet.uucp (Nick Lawes) writes:
>A friend of mine has an Amiga... Now THERE's a strange disk system...
>no real directories etc... YUCK. (No flames please, I remember the wars
>of a few years back... :-) Nice hardware, shame about the firmware...

No flames, he says. He remembers the wars, he says.

But he starts a war by posting untrue slander. "No real directories"???
Regardless of what he thought he meant by that, it's untrue. The Amiga
has a hierarchical file system based on "real" files and "real"
directories.

Perhaps he's thinking of the "40 folder limit" bug on Atari ST's, but
there's no such problem with Amiga's. The Amiga file system is very
much like that of Unix in overall characteristics.

Or maybe he heard a distorted version of the fact that the older
file system (there's a newer, functionally compatible but optimized
"fast file system" also) was optimized for file opens, at the expense
of somewhat slow directory scans.

If so, there's a huge difference between "slow directory scans" (but
extremely fast file opens) and "no real directories".

Anyone who's been through some flame wars and still doesn't have sense
enough to check their facts before slandering someone's favorite
system deserves to have their mailbox charred by white heat.

Repeating bad-mouthing rumors is bad manners and bad sense.
	Doug
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