From: "Patrick Kelly" <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] quote of the day
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:48:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000301ca8592$e554f4b0$affede10$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bb898929a0ba282cef00c948014ceb4@ladd.quanstro.net>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On Behalf Of
erik quanstrom
>Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 4:43 AM
>To: 9fans@9fans.net
>Subject: [9fans] quote of the day
>"Do not spend too much time trying to figure out why this math works.
>The basis for the computation is complicated; the important point is that
this is how Microsoft operating systems do it, and it works. Note, however,
that this math does not work perfectly."
> - Microsoft EFI FAT32 File System Specification, p. 32
-_-` Oh boy...
>- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-25 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-25 9:43 erik quanstrom
2009-12-25 18:48 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2009-12-26 5:44 ` Jamie Gavahan
2009-12-26 5:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-12-26 6:42 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-12-26 6:49 ` Bruce Ellis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-13 22:03 erik quanstrom
2008-02-13 23:08 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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