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Article #1404Re: reinstallation
From: John Summerfield
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00
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In <4vanvt$2b48@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, lesbell@ibm.net (Les Bell) writes: >In <8C6942F.005D000280.uuout@interzone.apana.org.au>, tetsuo@interzone.apana.org.au (TETSUO) writes: >>You're nuts! >> >>I've explored HPFS. IT doesn't give "performance boosts" or whatever, it's only >>advantage is that it has a better way of organising files so they dont get >>fragmented, and it puts the allocation table in the Middle of the disk instead >>of the centre. FAT under OS/2 is "SUPER-FAT" and has alot of improvements over >>the Default FAT under DOS which give it better performance. >> >>FAT is usable under OS/2, DOS, Win, Win95, WinNT, Linux and even Macs can What operating MAC operating system can I run on my P133 system? >>read/write to it with the driver installed! I really cannot see a single >>argument that outwieghs the FAT vs HPFS in favour of HPFS. Really? C'mon, all >>the advantages of HPFS don't add up to anything when compared to the >>multi-platform compatibility you get with FAT. Even on a speed scale you wont >>find any noticable difference. I certainly noticed the difference: could have timed it with a sun dial. snip >Requires third-party drivers to access under DOS and Linux. But these >are inexpensive. True for DOS (which I don't have) but not for Linux (which I DO have), though Linux only reads HPFS. Cheers John Summerfield Warped & Connected Perth, Western Australia OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f69fe,5d8a1ffc04d2b54b X-Google-Attributes: gidf69fe,public X-Google-Thread: 10a752,ec6efcb633e94c00 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,5d8a1ffc04d2b54b X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public From: summer@iinet.net.au (John Summerfield) Subject: Re: reinstallation Date: 1996/08/20 Message-ID: <4vci4m$o2j@opera.iinet.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 175325345 references: <4v1hsq$csd@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <8C6942F.005D000280.uuout@interzone.apana.org.au> <4vanvt$2b48@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> organization: OS/2 Support reply-to: summer@iinet.net.au (John Summerfield) newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.advocacy,aus.computers.os2