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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: msell@ontimesupport.com (Matthew Sell),
	stewartsmith@mac.com (Stewart Smith),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:18:23 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304251618.h3PGINWP001520@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304251131490.6515@chaos> from "Richard B. Johnson" at Apr 25, 2003 11:45:18 AM

> 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?

John.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-25 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-09  5:02 kernel support for non-english user messages Frank Davis
2003-04-09  5:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-09  5:50   ` Frank Davis
2003-04-09  9:37     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-04-09 11:04   ` Alan Cox
2003-04-09  5:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-09  8:08 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-04-09  9:33   ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-09 10:24     ` Matti Aarnio
2003-04-09 22:07   ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-09 22:41     ` Frank Davis
2003-04-09 22:55       ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-09 23:53         ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-10  1:43       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-10 18:57         ` Alan Cox
2003-04-10 20:13           ` Trond Myklebust
2003-04-10 19:42             ` Alan Cox
2003-04-11  0:48               ` Christer Weinigel
2003-04-11 15:56                 ` Daniel Stekloff
2003-04-10 20:53             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-10 23:05               ` Jon Portnoy
2003-04-11  5:39                 ` DevilKin
2003-04-11  5:49                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-04-11  6:17                     ` DevilKin
2003-04-11 17:51                     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11 11:57               ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-11 17:55                 ` David Lang
2003-04-10 20:36           ` John Bradford
2003-04-10 22:20             ` Shaya Potter
2003-04-11  4:19               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-11  4:23                 ` Shaya Potter
2003-04-11  8:40                   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-11  9:09                 ` John Bradford
2003-04-11 10:59                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-11 11:11                     ` John Bradford
2003-04-11 11:40                 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-24 23:25             ` versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for non-english user messages) Stewart Smith
2003-04-25  7:14               ` John Bradford
2003-04-25 15:20               ` Matthew Sell
2003-04-25 15:45                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-25 16:18                   ` John Bradford [this message]
2003-04-25 17:06                     ` versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-25 17:48                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-25 19:38                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 21:21                           ` 9-track tape drive (Was: Re: versioned filesystems in linux) John Bradford
2003-04-25 21:22                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 21:31                               ` Mike Dresser
2003-04-26  6:32                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-26  6:57                                   ` John Bradford
2003-04-25 18:13                       ` versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for John Bradford
2003-04-25 18:34                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-10  8:19       ` kernel support for non-english user messages Oliver Neukum
2003-04-09 13:11 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-04-10  3:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-10  9:05   ` kernel support for non-English " Riley Williams
2003-04-10 17:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-10 18:32       ` John Bradford
2003-04-12  2:55       ` Chris Wedgwood

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