Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:07:45 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: George Davidovich <freebsd@optimis.net> Subject: Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!! Message-ID: <200908171707.47934.erich@apsara.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <980215.56754.qm@web58307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090816172801.GA84244@marvin.optimis.net> <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, On 17 August 2009 pm 16:25:29 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:28:01 -0700, George Davidovich <freebsd@optimis.net> wrote: > > Sorry, but while I agree the MICROS~1 pejorative can be a bit > > juvenile and uncalled for, your assertion that 8.3 filenames > > are a thing of the past is incorrect. > > Furthermore, I think it wasn't a "gain of comfort" MICROS~1 > (sorry, can't resist) inventet. As far as I remember, CP/M had > 8.3 filenames too, and that was prior to DOS. (It only hadn't > directories). > wasn't it DEC with their RT-11 and RSX-11 operating systems introducing this concept which was then copied by Intel for the 8080 development systems? > By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to > be unique within the first 6 (six) letters? :-) Hey, memory was real rare those days. Erich
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