Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:18:23 +0100 (BST) |
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> You just modify your user-mode tools and your 'C' runtime library > to make whatever atrocious versioning mechanism you want. You can > even make all filenames upper case, just like VAX/VMS, and you can > even make your shell DCL if you want. It's where the rules are > enforced like (mapping everything to upper-case). > > I can see it now, upon startup `init` execs: > > SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT.EXE - > INPUT=SYS$SYSTEM:[etc]inittab - > OUTPUT=SYS$SYSTEM:[var.log]startup.log - > ERROR=SYS$SYSTEM:[dev]console - > UIC=[0,0] - > PRIV=(NOALL, TMPMBX, NETMBX, SETPRV)
Just wondering how difficult it would be to make a 9-track tape drive from scratch, and connect it up to the parallel port... Do you think that old hard disk motors, from 5.25" MFM disks be powerful enough for the 120IPS tape transport?
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