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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 21 Jan 2015 21:19:13 GMT
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On 2015-01-21, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <210120151400310792%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
><michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> One of the admin people at Apple in 1989, who was running an in-house
>> development build of System 6.0.4, had his computer lock up at boot
>> right after installing a new build.
>> 
>> Turns out that the OS was using the ¥ (Japanese Yen symbol as a
>> placeholder, and would insert the startup disk's name there.  This
>> guy's startup disk had that symbol as part of its name, so the system
>> went into an infinite loop.  After an engineer explained what happened
>> to me, he asked how I would fix the problem.  I told him that I'd use a
>> colon as the place holder because that was the only character you
>> couldn't use in a disk, folder, or file name.  He congratulated me on
>> having the correct answer.
>
> remember the .sony bug?
>
> mac drivers began with a period and if you named a hard drive .sony,
> access to the hard drive actually went to the (sony) floppy disk driver
> and vice versa. needless to say, that did not end well.
>
> there was a later version of that bug in the system 7 days where hard
> drives could be trashed if a file began with a period.

Yep! I remember that one too. Silly programmers. : )

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