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Re: isearch multiple buffers


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:08:55 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/25/07, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> being based on bill gate's brain tumor 30 years ago.
>
> The 8.3 scheme predates MS-DOS.

Gary Kildall (?), CP/M.  Boxes with 64kB of address space and
typically about 100kB of disk space.

> And it was quite reasonable at the time.

Adopting it wasn't.  CP/M compatibility induced issues continue to
haunt Windows after all these years.

-- 
David Kastrup




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