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From: 7GMADISO@POMONA.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Maligning TRS-80's
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Date: 3 Feb 88 02:14:39 GMT
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Date: 2 February 1988, 18:08:38 PST
From: 7GMADISO at POMONA
To:   INFO-ATARI16 at SCORE.STANFORD

Peter Santangeli writes:
>    We have a limited number of folders (static).
>    My hard drive creates new files slower than my floppy.
>    The OS doesn't do any sector level buffering.
>These features remind me painfully of my experiences with TRSDOS on a
>1977 trs-80!

Obviously Mr. Santangeli hasn't used a TRS-80 in some time.  LS-DOS
6.3 compares to the early versions of TRSDOS much as (name your favorite
well-thought-out, essentially bugless OS) compares to early versions of
CP/M.

                    ---- George Madison


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