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BTW: The VMS guy was Cutler. The VMS file systems were based on the PDP 11 file systems. When Ken Thompson wrote Unix, he was free to design any file system he wanted. Few people really appreciate the elegance of the Unix file system. With the Unix file system things like hard links and symbolic links tie right in because a file is not tied to a directory. On 19 Jan 2001, at 18:18, John Chambers wrote: > The most straightforward explanation, as with other OSs, is that it's > simply a case of an independent development line whose designers > couldn't be bothered to study other systems or learn any of the > history of software engineering. The "Not Invented Here" syndrome has > been clearly active in the history of the Microsoft OSs. They weren't > about to learn why those unix nerds did things in the strange ways > they did. Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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