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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: NT Promises?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.072825.6264@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 07:28:25 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <16832D20F.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu>
- Lines: 43
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- In article <16832D20F.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> SDENARO@vm.poly.edu writes:
- >Will NT solve these problems, if so how?
- >
- >8.3 names? Is this a new, backward compatible files system?
-
- Windows NT supports multiple file systems including FAT, HPFS, ISO 9660
- and "NTFS" - FAT is MS-Dos FAT, with 8.3 names (no long names), HPFS
- is the OS/2 file system, ISO 9660 is the format used on most
- cd-roms, and NTFS is the new file system in Windows NT - NTFS
- supports both a longname & a concurrent 8.3 name on each file.
-
- All file systems can make their files visible to MS-DOs & Win16
- apps (HPFS only shows those with shorter names). FAT only supports
- shorter names, and NTFS will always show all files, since it
- maintain two name spaces. FAT is the only file system that will
- be recognisable by MS-Dos systems, after re-booting to MS-Dos
-
- >Will NT solve all my network NetMares? How? Will I have to set up a
- >peer to peer lan, Or can I still use Novell?
-
- We hope that WIndows NT's built in networking will solve some
- of your problems, but I doubt any software will solve them all! You
- can still use Novell's Netware, and Novell have announced that they'll
- be deliverring Windows NT client software in a timely fashion, as
- soon as they can [we hope to see versions later this year]
-
- >Speed. Will 32bit apps run faster under NT than DOS/Windows?
-
- We feel this certainly should be true for the majority of 32-bit apps,
- but their will always be some weird benchmark program which will
- find the exception
-
- >Will Billy and the gang at Redmond put out an NT-lite? Most of our
- >users don't need POSIX and OS/2 (Or MS Lan-Mangler). I would like
- >to see win32 without DOS, OR all the NT stuff. In 4mb on a 386, >40mb disk.
-
- We've committed to adding more and more of the Win32 API to Windows for
- MS-Dos over time, of that's what you mean by "NT-Lite" - the first
- delivery of this line will be the Win32s extensions for Windows 3.1,
- which add 32-bit versions of the Windows 3.1 API, binary compatible
- with the Win32 APIs in Windows NT
-
- Alistair
-