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Article #31933Re: The DANGERS of TURBO-DOS
From: Allan Pratt
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1988 19:57
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1988 19:57
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From article <1687@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, by wolf@csclea.ncsu.edu (Thomas Wolf): >> [TurboDOS's problems with media-change] > This wouldn't be a problem on a hard-disk, would it? Unfortunately, yes: just as your thumb is hardware which can eject a disk, your forefinger can reset the machine. This can happen with more regularity (say) than on a UNIX system, because it's so easy to lock up the system from a stupid user program and force a reboot. The only bad thing which could happen with the ROM GEMDOS is unclosed, newly-written-to files will be lost, and the data clusters either remain free or are orphaned. But if TurboDOS delays writes even longer, you could lose a lot more. I encourage people not to use TurboDOS -- I know I wouldn't trust my hard disk to it. If they didn't think media-change through, what else didn't they do? ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!portal!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The DANGERS of TURBO-DOS Message-ID: <1039@atari.UUCP> Date: 15 Apr 88 19:57:55 GMT References: <1687@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 22