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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Version Numbers (Re: The Next Generation)
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 04:05:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 04:05:57 1987
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>Version numbers can be VERY useful.  They have saved me a lot of time
>on several occasions.  But they DO take up a lot of space.  So why not
>do the sort of thing SCCS does:  store previous versions as a set of
>differences from the following versions.  Thus getting back (or looking

	But not as part of the operating system.  YES I've used VMS, and
NO I don't think it is worth it, especially considering such issues as
diskspace and slowing down an already slow DOS.

					-Matt