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From: dragon@trwspf.TRW.COM (Roger Vossler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Generation
Message-ID: <586@trwspf.TRW.COM>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 02:50:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 26 02:50:38 1987
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In article <1570@bsu-cs.UUCP> jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday) writes:
*Reading about protecting me from myself has reminded me of a VMS
*feature which I sorely miss on my Amiga -- version numbers on files.
*
[deleted explanation of how version numbers worked]
*
*To keep things tidy (so that you don't fill an entire disk with every
*version of a file made in the past 10 years) the number of backup
*versions that the system should retain is a user controllable file
*attribute.

The trouble was that users tend not to delete anything until forced
to do so at gunpoint. The result was that disks filled up quickly
and systems administrators went mad trying to stem the tide. I
sincerely hope I never see a version number on a file again. But
that's only my opinion - no flames, please.

Actually, version numbers were invented by DEC marketing types in
the hopes of selling more disk drives. They succeeded beyond their
wildest imagination! 8-)
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