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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Sequential_IO
Date: 1999/08/19
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In article <37BC277E.B17EEEFF@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:

> one for each drive letter (everyone who thinks drive letters are the
> dumbest O/S idea of all time raise their hand ;-).  On VMS systems,

Not here. My vote goes for DOS's upper memory/lower memory/extended
memory foolishness.

And in fairness to DOS, Unix's case-sensitive file names comes in at
about #5 on the list.

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