Date   : Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:41:09 +0000 (GMT)
From   : dabenavidesd@... (Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.)
Subject: FS: Master 512 - New and Unused,

Hi all:
respect of the set of boxes, anything can be brought to live again I guess, 
if there is some source of correction in the FS it was written, but unfourtunately, 
this is hard to know when it is about of huge files, like music, video, etc,
the good thing is this only multimedia data, I'm sure you don't have so much
info in your discs. I guess
Interesting enough is this mail of past year:
http://www.realworldtech.com/beta/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=103093&threadid=102990&roomid=2

About Acorn technology of those days, I wonder how they got the system around 
a Read only file system, perhaps they did believe everything could be networked
or something like that, indeed, I had a Professor that said that all current
OSS were File oriented, not what he taugth in my University were Computer
Networks course indeed.

In behalf of them, there are some reports that talk about the computer they 
had and what they resolved theyir problems, specially [1] Modula-2 most related
and [2] Modula-2+ which talk a bit more about the language and its closest
descendant [3] Modula-3:

[1] P. Robinson and M. Jordan, ?A programming environment for Modula-2,?
Software Engineering Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 119-126, 1988.

[2] M. Jordan, ?Experiences in configuration management for modula-2,? in
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software configuration management
 -, pp. 126-128, 1989.

[3] M. Jordan, ?An extensible programming environment for Modula-3,? in Proceedings
of the fourth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments
 - SDE 4, pp. 66-76, 1990.