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- From: ckincy@cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy)
- Subject: Re: MS to 'support' OS/2?
- References: <1hnk8nINNuh@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec29.174203.9145@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <PSHUANG.93Jan1222542@stephen-king.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:58:29 GMT
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- In article <PSHUANG.93Jan1222542@stephen-king.mit.edu> pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping Huang) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.174203.9145@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
- >
- > > I'm pretty certain MS Word 5.5 doesn't support HPFS under OS/2, since
- > > it is *really* an OS/2 1.x program, and I believe HPFS only came in
- > > with 2.0. (Perhaps I'm wrong about that?)
- >
- >The High Performance File System existed for OS/2 1.x, although I don't
- >remember if it shipped with 1.0 or was one of the enhancements that came
- >with 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3. You can find an article in Microsoft System
- >Journal by a Microsoft author extolling the virtues of HPFS and how the
- >engineers at Microsoft planned and did their very best to incorporate
- >New Technology (OK, I'm deliberately using words they didn't actually
- >use here....) into HPFS to ensure its viability into the 21st century,
- >or something to that effect. That should tell you just how old HPFS is,
- >if it pre-dates the official IBM-Microsoft break-up.
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- Gee, that author wouldn't have been Gordon Letwin, would it have?
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- Hee hee. :)
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- cpk
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