RMS> If we want to make the system as good to use as Windows, for
RMS> non-hackers, we have to give high priority to user convenience
RMS> for non-hackers. We need to consider trading away features
RMS> that are not terribly beneficial, such as caching and mmap
RMS> on a floppy disk.
Except, of course, that Windows (NT, that is) *does* support caching and
memory mapped files on floppy discs, so losing those features from Linux just
in order to be able to say that "Linux is as good as Windows" seems rather
illogical.
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