-=> Quoting Michael Rowley to All <=-

 MR> Sorry to waist  some of your time, but if anyone out there has the
 MR> patients, and the time :)  could someone try explaining to me why
 MR> support for another file system could not be built into Dos?  I know
 MR> there are drivers that will allow Dos to read HPFS for example, but
 MR> what about allowing it to boot from an hpfs drive?  This would be
 MR> increadibly handy.

The problem is to shoehorn it into 640k and still have room to run
applications. And remember, you wouldn't get the long filename support since
applications, in general, wouldn't support it.

(To get an idea of the size -- consider how much the available RAM shrinks
when you load CDROM drivers. That's another file system, and it's a readonly
one to boot!

Tom


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