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- From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: <None> (Should be Open Systems, bloody NEWS system...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.102348.62151@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 10:23:47 MDT
- References: <1992Nov30.160802.22319@e2big.mko.dec.com> <41801@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <BzGL07.2wK@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <BzGL07.2wK@dscomsa.desy.de>, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes:
- >
- > W/NT on introduction will of course have to cope with the CP/M filestore which
- > it inherited from MSDOS.
-
- About the only thing common between the MSDOS file system and the CP/M
- filesystem is the size of the filename (8.3). Although MSDOS _can_ use
- CP/M-style FCBs, these are just a facade for old software.
- --
-
- Roger Ivie "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
- ivie@cc.usu.edu It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
- into mutants!"
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