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   Message 129,335 of 131,241   
   John Ames to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: VAX (was: Why I've Dropped In)   
   07 Aug 25 08:28:52   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:45:44 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > It added its own misfeatures, though.   
      
   Unfortunately, yes. "User areas" in particular are just a completely   
   useless bastard child of proper subdirectories and something like   
   TOPS-10's programmer/project pairs; even making user area 0 a "common   
   area" accessible from any of the others would've helped, but they   
   didn't do that. It's a sign of how misconceived they were that MS-DOS   
   (in re-implementing CP/M) dropped them entirely and nobody complained,   
   then added real subdirectories later.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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