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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment
Message-ID: <4623@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 08:33:29 GMT
References: <8808232121.AA28517@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <8588@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8588@cup.portal.com> Jeffrey_J_Vanepps@cup.portal.com writes:
>They're doing an environment on the file system?! I always thought the
>main advantage of something called an "environment" over startup or
>configuration files was that it did NOT have to deal with the SLOW
>file system (i.e. the environment was memory-resident). Even MS-DOG
>saw that!

	Except that the file system in use is RAM: (ramdisk).

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup