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Re:HFS+ is crazy by mbell on Friday December 04, 2015 @04:40PM (#10679352)
> an amazingly well-designed OS for its time

It had a few interesting ideas. But no desktop OS based on cooperative multitasking can be called 'well-designed', almost anything could hard-lock the entire system at any time.

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Re:HFS+ is crazy by icedchai on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:26PM (#10679629)
AmigaOS was a lot better designed and had full preemptive multitasking, etc. Too bad Commodore sucked at marketing.
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Re:HFS+ is crazy by blakeyrat on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:00PM (#10700797)
Considering it was built for a 68000, I believe that was a reasonable decision on Apple's part.
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