From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 09:07:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C082A1065695 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@apsara.com.sg) Received: from babylon.webvis.net (babylon.webvis.net [202.157.163.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BA38FC70 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.240] ([119.73.191.194]) by apsara.com.sg ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:07:44 +0800 SGT From: Erich Dollansky Organization: apsara green technology pte ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:07:45 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <980215.56754.qm@web58307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090816172801.GA84244@marvin.optimis.net> <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908171707.47934.erich@apsara.com.sg> Cc: George Davidovich Subject: Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:47 -0000 Hi, On 17 August 2009 pm 16:25:29 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:28:01 -0700, George Davidovich 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