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echo: bluewave
to: Dan Egli
from: Mike Tripp
date: 2004-06-22 07:42:12
subject: NTFS Yeah !

Hello Dan!

21 Jun 04 20:59, Dan Egli wrote to JEAN PARROT:

 DE> It's not real for one thing. All NTFS is when you get down to it is a
 DE> POORLY hacked copy of OS/2's HPFS. I know. I've read the specs for
 DE> NTFS 1. Its about 85% identical to the OS/2 HPFS spec. But M$, in
 DE> typical fassion, slaughtered it when they stole it.

So you didn't know that Microsoft wrote both OS/2 and HPFS?  There wasn't
any hacking or stealing going on...merely a contract that allowed them to
significantly reuse code that IBM subcontracted them for.

.\\ike

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