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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: HFS FST
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Date: 11 Feb 90 22:00:48 GMT
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In article <38524@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
>In article <57906@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@src.honeywell.com (Subash Shankar) writes:
>>[...]
>>Alternate conclusion -
>>
>>When GS/OS was developed, Apple intended to write a Mac HFS, but when they
>>actually started writing it, they realized that it was totally impractical,
>>and abandoned the project.
>>
>>At least, this is what I infer from other Usenet posts by the Apple folk.
>
>That's an interesting theory, but I can't think what posts you are referring
>to.

Well, probably I'm wrong, but here's my reasoning (all from memory, so they
could be wrong).

One, somebody made mention of some official type at one of the Developers 
Meetings saying something like 
  You're asking us for a _____ FST, when we haven't even completed the 
  HFS one yet?
Two, the amount of time that has gone by without release of an HFS FST.  I
don't suscribe to the anti-Apple II conspiracy at Apple theories (though they
definitely don't support it adequately), so I think it would have been released
if they had a working version.

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