On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:22:47PM -0400, Allen Briggs wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:16:52PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > No modern operating system should have the user do things like this unless
> > he/she has a specific reason for it.  The users don't even know what
> > mounting a disk means.
> 
> No, but most people know about disabling or "putting away" the
> device before removing it.  Dragging it to the trashcan in MacOS
> or right-clicking on it on Windows (or whatever you do there).

On the Amiga, you just ejected the disk.  If the OS had any dirty buffers,
it would ask the user to reinsert the disk so it could flush the buffers.
It also flushed the buffers when a timeout expired after the "last" disk
access.

  -jm