Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <kzxJa.4734$%3.257001@typhoon.sonic.net>,
Don Bruder  <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:
>Why SHOULD a state-of-the-art OS even make so much as a token ATTEMPT to
>support a filesystem that's been officially abandoned (never mind the fact
>that the machine it was designed to run on hasn't been manufactured for
>even longer) for almost 10 years?

Access to your older data, perhaps?  While I don't see that there's a way to
hook a 5.25" drive to a Mac at this time (though a USB<-->Disk II dongle is
an intriguing idea), if you have a bunch of stuff on ProDOS-formatted 3.5"
floppies or a ProDOS-formatted hard drive, having the ability to access that
data would be nice.  It's not like they'd have to write support for it from
scratch.

Would you argue that the multitude of filesystems supported by Linux is a
Bad Thing?  If you don't need (for instance) HPFS, you just don't
compile it in.  With a closed-source OS, you simply wouldn't install support
for a filesystem you don't plan on using...you can add it in later if it
turns out you need it.

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