Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!elroy!mahendo!jplgodo!wlbr!scgvaxd!trwrb!trwspf!dragon 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 Article-I.D.: trwspf.586 Posted: Thu Nov 26 02:50:38 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:25:32 EST References: <5294@ccicpg.UUCP> <2803@cbmvax.UUCP> <516@mcdsun.UUCP> <5537@ccicpg.UUCP> <2252@dayton.UUCP> <1570@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: dragon@trwspf.UUCP (Roger Vossler) Organization: TRW - Data Systems Lab., Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 25 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-) -- -- Roger Vossler TRW, Bldg O2-1395, One Space Park, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 BIX: rvossler UseNet: dragon@trwspf.trw.com ATT: 213.535.2804 ....!sdcrdc!trwrb!trwspf!dragon