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From: crowl@rochester.ARPA (Lawrence Crowl)
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Subject: Re: CD ROMs to use 68000 OS9 (or DEC Files-11)
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Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 11:23:03 EST
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DEC is also pushing a standard for CD-ROMS.  It is a file system based
on their Files-11 file system.  See the April 1986 issue of Mini-Micro
Systems.  My one comment is that DEC's [dir,dir,dir]file.ext naming
scheme is not as good as the Unix /dir/dir/dir/file.ext naming scheme.  
It tends to cause problems for name aliasing schemes.  You also have
to hunt down the [] keys.

How many companies are pushing their own file system as standard?  How
about putting them all together in one room until they come up with a
standard?  Well, the standards that come out of committees like this
are always baroque and unwieldy.  How about having someone who is not
finacially interested but is technically competent design a system
incorporating the best features of the various proposed standards?
Or am I dreaming?
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Lawrence Crowl             716-275-5766        University of Rochester
                                               Computer Science Department
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