On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:37:26 +0200, geonik wrote:
> A.S. Tanenbaum "Modern Operating Systems" 2nd edition <quote>
> In an experiment to see if Windows NT file usage was appreciably
> different from UNIX file usage, Vogels made measurements on files at
> Cornell University (Vogels, 1999). He observed that NT file usage is
> more complicated than on UNIX. He wrote: /When we type a few characters
> in the notepad text editor, saving this to a file will trigger 26 system
> calls, including 3 failed open attempts, 1 file overwrite and 4
> additional open and close sequences./ </quote>
> No comment.
Does notepad at least make backup copies of the previously saved
version? I don't recall. If it did, one could accept the above as
almost sensible. If not, well...
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