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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Obviously there's also a truckload of ways AmigaOS is *different* from
> Unix. [There are no device files,
Actually, there are. CON: was, for example, a device file.
> pathnames have a syntax more like MS-DOS,
Actually, not. Each was up to the device driver to interpret. The stuff
before the colon was the name of the device driver that the rest got
passed to. The "Speach:" driver, for example, had no pathnames remotely
resembling MS-DOS.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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