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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:43:35PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> it gets better. They also define a Flat File System (FFS) in the spec.
> It has functions to look up and create files, including one function to
> tell you if there are two files of the same name on the volume, and if
> so, where the many files with the same name are. I kid you not. It's one
> of the worst things I've ever seen.

Sounds a lot like my final project for high school AP computer science
(back when it was in Pascal).

You know, the way the Intel engineer described EFI, some of it didn't
sound all together unreasonable.  I don't understand why they wouldn't
try and integrate ACPI support into Open Firmware and be done with it,
but hey, what do I know?  However, it seems like Dis would have been
a really interesting choice for the EFI bytecode engine.

	- Dan C.