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Article #2488Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge + (new) BENCHMARK I DID
From: Doug Merritt
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 15:57
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 15:57
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In article <8787@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>Static limits are a bad thing, period. MS-DOS even makes you tell it how
>many files you'll allow to be open at once. Apparently OS/2 suffers from
>the same faulty thinking...
And so does Unix, unfortunately. It's a configurable limit, which means
that it can be raised by wizards but that normal Unix users can't do
anything to raise it.
There's a saying: "give people either zero, one, or infinity of any
resource...any other number will lead to frustration".
Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge + (new) BENCHMARK I DID Message-ID: <560@xdos.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 89 15:57:24 GMT References: <24370@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> <8787@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 15