At 10:02 PM 3/2/00 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>No! How do we get our daily dose of fun then? http://www.microsoft.com (specifically their press releases).
Here is one such. Have fun...This time they are claiming to have "invented" symlinks, at least 30 years after it showed up in Multics (UNIX symlinks are modeled after these)
This is from http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
Microsoft Research Innovations Enhance Windows 2000
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2000 -- Three years ago, Bill Bolosky and
two Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology advances when
an idea occurred to them -- why not save operating system disk space
by storing duplicate files as links that point to a single file housed
in a central location?
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