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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD -- What happened to my loadfd command?
Date: 30 Oct 1992 11:56:49 GMT
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In article <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>, eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
> : floppy as a filesystem (a la 'mount /pcfs' in SunOS)???

> I do not like it. It makes OS more complex to understand. 
> It is already being done for CDROM, but it is meant for SCSI driver only

If it can be left out (like the CDROM driver), I don't see your point.
As an aside: It might be quite fun being able to access any old DOS FS:
Just boot from a floppy, mount C: and do whatever else is on the floppy -
ftp, uucp,...

:)

Bernard
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