Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <f2MJa.4902$%3.259852@typhoon.sonic.net>,
Don Bruder  <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:
> In article <5JHJa.165291$eJ2.6799@fed1read07>,
>  salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote:
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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?
> 
> If you've got data that old, that's important enough to need to be used 
> on <insert your chosen system here> and hasn't been updated to being 
> stored on <insert media compatible with your chosen system here> then, 
> no offense intended, but quite bluntly, you're a damn fool. 
> 
> I can *KINDA* see leaving the old copies in place as last-resort 
> backups, but if you're relying on being able to read something from a 
> disk written by/formatted for an OS/filesystem that's been abandoned for 
> going on 10 years *BY THE COMPANY WHO CREATED IT* for something 
> critical, you're twice the fool.
> 
> Fergawdsake... Use some common sense already. It doesn't take a rocket 
> scientist to figure out "Hey... We've got this new 
> machine/OS/filesystem, and we've got all this old data from our previous 
> machine. What if we did something intelligent, like use a modem or 
> serial connection to dump the whole ball of wax onto media that the new 
> system can access, before the old hardware/software goes completely 
> belly-up?"
> 
> End of problem. End of need for support for dinosaur-tech 
> hardware/OS/filesystem. Everything needed is sitting right there 
> accessible by the "modern" system. 
 
...for another few years, until that "modern" system becomes obsolete...
 
Yep, moving old data to modern media is a never-ending task.  Today
you can store the old data on a CD - in 10 years or so the CD will
probably be obsolete....
 
One feature of modern media eases this task though: their storage
capacity just becomes larger.  So when I moved all my Apple II disks
to disk images, they all fit in some 20 PC floppies or so.  Now they're
on CD of course...  Another migration of old data I did some years
ago was to move all my 5.25" PC floppies (there were some 6 boxes
full of them!) to CD -- they all nicely fit on one single CD....
 
> Wow... what a concept...
 
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