Hadron Quark wrote:
> ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:44:41 +0100
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ Linonut on Saturday 07 July 2007 18:37 : \____
>>>
>>> > After takin' a swig o' grog, Why Tea belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>> >
>>> >> Will it be a different world today if Linux came before Windows?
>>> >> Will Linux be able to lead the PC revolution like Windows?
>>> >
>>> > It is not useful to speculate.
>>> >
>>> > Undoubtedly there would have been other assholes to fill the void
>>> > left by Bill Gates.
>>>
>>> If it were not him, it would be another greedy man. Jobs and Ellions
>>> aren't much better.
>>>
>>> > By the way, Windows led no PC revolution. If any product of
>>> > Microsoft did that, it would be DOS.
>>>
>>> Wasn't cost a revolution? Don't forget where DOS actually came from,
>>> just like BASIC.
>>
>> It was that the IBM PC came with MS DOS... That's all...
>>
>> UNIX was thought of as too user unfriendly. MS DOS was simple enough
>> for beginners to understand.
>>
>> I think it had general commands that users to relate to like 'format',
>> 'chdir', 'del' etc, comparing these to UNIX mnemonics I can agree.
>
> Rubbish. It was simply that most people didnt need a multi user OS with
> the scope of Unix. They needed something lightweight.
>
>> Although it might just be that's its closer to what people today use in
>> language, had UNIX been more popular then, perhaps we would call disks
>> being an 'fs' rather than formatted.
>
> What?
>
> "fs"s get formatted.....
Hadron has lost the plot.
The command for making a file system is:
mke2fs for ext2 ext3
mkreiserfs for reiser
...nothing at all about "formatting" a disk, let alone a partition.
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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