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From: ugmiker@cs.buffalo.EDU (Michael (what am I wood) Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: new file system???
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 12:33:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 12:33:10 1987
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Keywords: vaporware??? mere speculation ?? tell me the truth...

Hi all...

     Well, The suspense is Killing me.  IS Commodore really  com-
ing  out  with  a new file system, or is all this talk on the net
just idle wishing???

      Can anyone tell me HARD COLD FACTS about it??? Does anybody
KNOW (meaning  really know, not just "heard") something about iti,
anything :-).  People at commodore, could you tell  us  something
about  it (if it exists ????) without getting yourself into trou-
ble, maybe just tell us either it is being worked on,or it isn't.

     I have LOTS of questions about it, and about what will  hap-
pen when it comes out (if it is coming out), How much faster will
it be (it will be faster.. right....)? Will hard drives  have  to
be reformatted when the new system comes out??? Will floppys have
to be re-copied????

     Now another question is what kind  of  work  would  go  into
writing  a/the  new  filesystem? would you have to know about how
the diskdrive records data? about how to move  the  drive  heads?
and  so on?  Would it be a hardware intensive problem, or more of
a software oriented problem(i.e. just calling functions  that  do
the  head  moving and etc.)?  As you can tell, I am not sure what
it would take, and realize I could not do it (alone  especially),
but I am wondering, if commodore is not working on it would it be
a mammoth task for one(or a few) to undertake???


						mike(r)
Michael (what am I wood??) Reilly  
University of Buffalo Computer Science       
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