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From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: sources to dvi2iff, version -1; tcp/ip for amiga
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Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 15:36:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 15:36:35 1987
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Reply-To: glee@tao.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
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In article <156@splut.UUCP> stu@splut.UUCP (Stewart Cobb) writes:
>   And while we're at it, can we get rid of device names and go to a
>single filesystem?

CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION

Single file system works fine when the drives are permanently mounted, floppy
systems mean that you have a large number of file systems (disks) that are
mounted and dis-mounted regularly. Can you imagine having to issue a unmount
command, eject disk, then issue a mount command every time you change floppies?
Of course, it is impossible to access two floppies at once with a single floppy
system, like diskcopy.

The Xenix system requires you to mount and unmount floppies, making it
virtually impossible to run without a hard disk. Other systems that run on
PCs run with device names, such as QNX, AmigaDOS, etc, etc, precisely for
the above reasons!!!
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