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From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HPFS for Windows (was Re: Sound under Windows...)
Message-ID: <3399@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 26 Sep 90 20:35:17 GMT
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spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:

>In article <BwRyP1w162w@zooid.UUCP> dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes:
>>... That and the STUPID #(*$&# 8-character filenames...

>InfoWeek I think said Microsoft was considering HPFS for a future
>version of Windows, now that they are basically dumping OS/2. This
>would be amazingly cool! Break every existing application, though...

Why should this break existing applications? HPFS doesn't break existing
applications under OS/2, so why should it do that under a new version
of DOS (or Windows or whatever)?

Wolfgang Strobl
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