Xenix FS history lesson please

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 25 23:16:29 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:48:18PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Which is, of course, why they used the same ID for NTFS, as was already 
> used for HPFS. ;-)

Or a handy way to screw OS/2 users.  Of course NT 3.x supported using
HPFS and could convert HPFS to NTFS as well, so keeping the ID was just
fine for Microsoft.

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