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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
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Subject: Re: Memory Protection (was: Gripes)
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.074646.7218@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 29 Jan 91 07:46:46 GMT
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ned.horvath writes:
>The OS proper is the moral 
>equivalent of floor sweepings, and the ugliness of HFS and MultiFinder
>are the result.

What's so ugly about HFS?  I don't see any problems with the programming
interface to it, and it looks to be a pretty good implementation of a
high-performance file system -- the use of a volume allocation bitmap, and
file extent and directory b*-trees in particular enable much better
performance than the schemes in many other operating system (such as
MS-DOS and Unix, for example).

The Desktop file is ugly, but that's not part of the file system (it's a
*use* of the FS) and it's disappearing anyway.  The PMSP is ugly but can
easily be avoided.  What other problems are there?
-- 
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