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- From: u1665462@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.035827.3982@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 03:58:26 +1100
- References: <1992Nov1.165306.22197@zooid.guild.org> <1992Nov2.164157.23765@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: The University of Melbourne
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Nov2.164157.23765@tamsun.tamu.edu>, davidn@cs.tamu.edu (David E Nichols) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov1.165306.22197@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >>I have been following the NT vs. OS/2 discussion and have noticed a few
- >>things. Earlier on, Mr. Letwin mentioned in a message OS/2 security and
- >>he used the word "I" in respect to OS/2. While I greatly appreciate
- >>his concern and I understand his current situation, he has nothing to
- >>do with OS/2 2.0. From reading his book, I clearly understand him
- >>being one of the designer of the older OS/2 but as far as 2.x is
- >>concerned, it is clearly owned by IBM hence it is not appropriate to
- >>use "I designed" or "I did."
- >
- > You had better know what you're talking about when you post something around
- > the world, especially when you call someone a liar. Gordon Letwin did
- > originally design OS/2, and he was talking about HPFS in the article you
- > mention (which you must not have read very well). He designed HPFS, and it
- > is the SAME HPFS that is in the 2.0 versions. HPFS is HPFS. Gordon Letwig
- > designed it. You called him a liar. Those are the facts.
- >
- >>
- >>Mark K.
- >>
- >>IEEE Computer Society member
- >>Internet: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
- >
- > David Nichols
- > Aarvark Society member
- > Internet: davidn@cs.tamu.edu
-
- Like Mark, I have read G. Letwin's "Inside OS/2". David is right. Mr. Letwin
- did design the HPFS. He is also wrong, because 32-bit HPFS is not the same as
- 16-bit HPFS.
-
- Still, I would like to congratulate Mr. Letwin providing the foundations for
- an excellent file system, which makes my DBase much faster than in native DOS,
- lets me use long filenames, is fragmentation resistant, etc... I would also
- like to congratulate Mr. Letwin on his excellent book which sold me on
- OS/2 v 1.1.
-
- Sice Mr. Letwin still seems to be very attached to OS/2, to the point of lurking
- on the net (although he has (oops, that should read "had") the code only 20
- famous keystrokes away) and talking about version 2.0 as if it was still his,
- maybe he should join Boca Ratton?
-
- Sven
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