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Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB?

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From: chrisg
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00
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In <DFH39C.n83@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>, Doug_Azzarito@bocaraton.ibm.com (Doug Azzarito) writes:
>In <rGNYwoHpvqWf084yn@skypoint.com>, rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) writes:
>>Question unrelated to this thread:  Where can one pick up technical info
>>about the HPFS filesystem?
>
>I teach an "HPFS Internals" class at the IBM Technical Interchanges
>(next chance to see it is next week in Paris), and at ColoradOS/2
>(October 15-20 in Keystone, Colorado).  I may have to take the time
>to write it all down and publish a book.  I'm tired of people thinking that
>disk drives are some kind of magic.

I've had a few chats to people about this. It seems that MS still owns
some of the copyright/patent issues with HPFS, and are reluctant to sign
it off so that it can be published. 

Is this true?

-Chris

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From: chrisg@werple.mira.net.au
Subject: Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB?
Date: 1995/10/04
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