Re: umsdos...on alphas..

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@asgard.yggdrasil.com)
30 Jul 1995 06:28:30 GMT


Followup to: <199507261734.RAA20047@lighthouse.umr.edu>
By author: tfries@umr.edu (Todd Fries)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Yes, I know it is highly unlikely that someone would in their
> right mind put umsdos on an alpha, but...
>

Well, maybe... the MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media since
just about every system in existence can read or write it, and UMSDOS
removes the most glaring limitations of it.

/hpa

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