X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d1df926a113e6ecd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-13 10:03:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Ville Jouppi Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: AsciiOS ;) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:03:07 +0200 Organization: Arabuusimiehet Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <6u4rlzm889.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <85qu3uoejd1offhpb5bhpv0gponrar0bns@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-xii-224.kotikaista.weppi.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 1010944944 2367 80.74.204.224 (13 Jan 2002 18:02:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2002 18:02:24 GMT Keywords: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13734 On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:55:38 +0000 (UTC), drsquare wrote: >>no... it's quite easy > >Really? Then why are filesystems such as FAT so poor? Well think about FAT's history. Originally a 12 bit filesystem, it was used for 180 and 360kB floppy disks. After that it's been "upgraded" to support long filenames, big hard disks and a 32 bit allocation table. It was perfectly good for what it was originally designed for. Luckily nowadays we have other filesystems (NTFS in the Windows world and more than you can shake a stick at in the Penguin world) -- CBM, Amiga and PEZ-nut, Scout, Glider pilot, Administrator Email: vjouppi@sci.fi, URL: http://www.sci.fi/~vjouppi/ GSM: +358-40-5679999, IRCNet: Jope Arabuusimiehet World Domination