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nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:

[a fairly interesting rant, for the most part]

>     - MSDOS has got a pretty bad file management system.    
[...]
>  Secondly, It stores all the address pointers in one place, which to me,
> seems pretty stupid. The C-64's method (which I think is a romper room
> verion of CP/M), distributes it's pointers where the data is (it actually
> links blocks together that store a given file).

Well, if you lose the directory entry, you lose the file.  Under the
linked-block strategy, the same thing applies, though.  And... if you
use linked blocks, fseek(file,0,SEEK_END) takes bloody forever!

> The UNIX system is perfect,
> nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.

Perfect?  Nawww.... nothing is perfect.  But for the most part, I'd
rather be writing for Unix than MS-DOS.  The only thing is, my employer
has all these DOS machines around. :-)
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