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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: HPFS for Windows (was Re: Sound under Windows...)
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Date: 27 Sep 90 21:28:39 GMT
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strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
>spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky (thats me)) writes:
>>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?

Because just about every DOS application I know of makes assumptions
about the maximum length of file names.

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                     Silence = Death