Cotty:
I don't think that case, motherboard etc for a Mac
can be bought separately...
Yes they can.
All right. I've just never seen new Mac parts for sale, while PC
parts are all over the place.
Is it like Linux where different drives or partitions simply have
different directory names?
I don't know if it is like Linux.
It isn't. In Linux (and other Unixes) there is a "root file system"
named "/" (a slash) and in that you have a hierarchic file tree in
the usual way. But unlike DOS and Mac there is only one hierarchy.
Different hard disks/partitions are attached to this tree in an
apparently seamless fashion. Speaking of trees, it's kinda like
grafting.
The root file system usually contains directories like "/etc" and
"/usr" while the direcories "/home" and "/var" can be on other
disks/partitions. There is no way to tell from the name only, that
"/home" is on another disk than "/etc". And, you can "graft" in any
point in the tree; even several directories deep.
anders -- with a MacOS9, a MacOSX, a Win2000, 2 Linuxes and a Sun Solaris
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