Sujet : Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 03. Nov 2024, 22:18:28
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On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:15:59 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
It was turned into MS-DOS while bringing
along a lot of unnecessary cruft (e.g. that damned hex 1A end-of-file
marker, which was totally unnecessary in a file system that could store
file lengths to the byte rather than the sector).
I don’t think MS-DOS could track file lengths down to the byte until
version 2. This was the one that added a random smattering of Unix-like
features, including I/O redirection and “piping” (all done with temporary
files, no actual support for pipes -- or even multitasking -- in the OS).
The other reason corporations buy something is to bury it.
Luckily, when you do that with a proprietary idea, all it does is leave
the field wide open for the Open Source competitor to take over.
Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy