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From: bowdidge@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Bowdidge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Munging OS's for Treed Directories
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 01:32:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 01:32:10 1987
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In article <861@vu-vlsi.UUCP> psuvax1!7GMADISO@POMONA.BITNET writes:
>Rob Healey writes:
>>>So what's the rudest thing you ever did to a TRSDOS 1.3 diskette?
>>>
>>>Give TRSDOS 1.3 a tree-structured directory just like UNIX.
>>>
>>>Any discussion?  Someone's GOT to have tried this before! How many hav
>>>taken a good Operating Systems class?
>>    If your going to hack up directorys at least do it on a DECENT OS. S:
>>    One of the LDOS's would prove nice. By the way, it's not as
>>    outrageous as you might think. I have an idea of how to add
>>    directorys by adding a high memory driver but Roy Soltoff never
>I have to agree.  If you are working on a Model 3, get LDOS 5.3, and
>mung that!  LDOS is CHEEP now, and it's an excellent OS.  There is also
>the fact that any directory perversion you come up with will also most
>likely work under LSI-DOS 6.3 for the Model *4*.
>                    ---- George Madison

The only reason I wanted to use TRSDOS in the first place was since I had the
sources to it but not to LDOS.  I didn't think I'd be using a Model 4 very much,
so compatibility wasn't an issue and I was thinking of MAJOR changes (ie get
rid of passwords, for example -- it's a waste of memory for me)
In short, I want a baby UNIX.  Now, with that 768K memory board I keep
hearing about, it might just be possible :-)
Of course, if you're talking compatibility, that wasn't a priority...
So use LDOS if you're into filters or major disassembly, but I'll stick with
s known quantity.  Besides, think of all the WONDERFUL changes you could make
to fix the problems it's got!
--Robert
                                                           Robert Bowdidge
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