Subject: Reading Win95 CD-ROMS...
From: Peter Chambers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.programmer

In the beginning there was ISO 9660. And the vendors of proper computers said "Let us make the pathnames proper." and Micro$oft said "But we have more users, we want 8.3 written into the standard so our Dross will work."

And it came to be. There was Level 1 for Dross users and Level 2 for the rest of us.

But it was not enough.

So the hordes met again in the High Sierra. And between them them they fixed up a veritable enhancement and a rainbow of books like unto red and orange. And all were amazed and started writing yet more code. Some indeed took the CD-bridge along the yellow brick road and defined yeah more graphic and muzak formats than were good for them. And unto time more stuff was given the name Rock Ridge.

Micro$osft meanwhile took cunning council in their world domination plans. And their Black Muster was given the codename "Chicago" after a very dark and cold place where much slaughter had been done in former times (though the beef industry is not what is was). And their cunning scheme for domination of the Compact Disk was called "Joliet" after the dark prison in which the legendary Blues Brothers were incarcerated.

To those that have seen the light.

Come.

It's dark. We have 200 MHz RISC machines. And I'm wearing sunglasses.