Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

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?
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> 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. 

Wow... what a concept...

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