OT! RE: Nuke Richmond (Long)

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat Jan 13 16:58:28 2001

From: THETechnoid_at_home.com <THETechnoid_at_home.com>


>This is on an HPFS formatted drive. A power failure can screw the
>filesystem just like windows if you run fat. I gave up on fat about the
>time I got OS/2....


Yes, FAT bad, anything else better.

It's relevent too as FAT filesystem is only 18-19 years old and
represents
the greatest flaw of DOS, WIN3.1 and WIN9x.

While off topic, it's interesting and OS designand evolution is something
the list members might delve deeper into.

Allison
Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 16:58:28 GMT