Re: ADTPro beta available

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1152497504.489924.253680@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> Otoh, if you had implemented your ADT for MSDOS or Windows, the
>> MSDOS/Windows part could be a pain for those that don't already have
>> MSDOS/Windows (natively, or emulated) installed... :-)
> 
> I think the biggest limitation here is that then you must move your
> disk image files into another 'disk image' since a dos/windows
> environment must be emulated at the hardware level, just like emulating
> an Apple II
> 
> With a JVM, all I/O functionality isn't a part of the Java platform,
> but inherited from its host environment. In this way, it integrates
> 'relatively' smoothly with your native environment, much like a
> scripting language.
> 
> Not wanting to start a flame war, just pointing out that there's a
> pretty big semantic gap between a Java 'platform' and a native
> platform.
> 
> Matt

True, the dos/windwos emulation would most likely need a harddisk
partition of its own, with a file system recognizable by dos/windows.
But if this partition was a FAT partition (eother FAT-32 or FAT-16),
the files there cold be fairly easily accessed by other OS'es.  Both
Mac and Linux computers can mount, read and write FAT partitions.

Recently I got a network disk for my home network.  The disk was some
300 GB large, and was preformatted as a FAT-32 disk, to make it easily
accessible to computers of different kinds (read: Wintel, Mac, Linux).

Memory sticks formatted as FAT disk volumes can also be accessed by
multiple kinds of computers.

So the FAT system will continue to live, but now mostly as "the
portable file system", i.e. the file system whose main advantage is
portability between different OS'es.

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