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   Marco van de Voort to jg@special-time.co.uk   
   Re: Pascal GUI   
   29 Jul 06 22:31:53   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2006-07-29, JG  wrote:   
   >>> Flash drives are seen as 'disks' so in the broadest sense that PC still   
   >>> uses a Disk Operating System.   
   >>   
   >> I think the word you are looking for is "filesystem". Filesystems don't even   
   >> have to be physical, they can be virtual too (e.g. ramdisk, devfs etc)   
   >   
   > I have no real disagreement with you Marco  -  just the point that   
   > Inflater was talking about not wanting to use DOS and I'm sure he would   
   > be even more confused had I made reference to a 'File system'.   
      
   It wasn't meant personally. I just want to make this clear, so that OP   
   doesn't confuse e.g. Dos.findfirst (which is a pretty general function for   
   an OS with a filesystem with directories) with dependant on the dos kernel.   
      
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