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Article #794Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Joris Zwart
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 15:10
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 15:10
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In article <405tae$dp3@oddball.sjc.MENTORG.COM>, ewill@hpewill.sje.mentorg.com (Eric Williams @ PCB x5577) wrote: >The scary thought is that it just might be, at least >as far as clustering is concerned. Both FAT and HFS >have a limitation of 64K allocatable clusters. >If VFAT has improved on this (doubtful, but possible) ... It hasn't. VFAT is just the normal FAT extended with a quick hack to store longer names in extra directory entries. All other limits of FAT are still firmly in place, and get even more annoying because the filesystem has to support an increasingly heavy OS. >But I suspect all Win95 did was put in a hokey hack that >will break everyone's disk optimizer (uh, yeah, we planned Indeed. You got it right. >that, big time, that way they'd have to buy ... OURS!!! :-) ). >No changes to the File Allocation Table format. (I wonder >if Win95 still supports 12-bit FATs? :-) ) Yes. All floppies are 12-bit, so they have to, even though 12-bit FAT is a monday-morning idea (The cluster numbers may extend over a sector boundary, i.e. to get one cluster number you have to read two sectors.) BTW, OS/2 supports 12-bit FAT too. Fair is fair. >eric_williams@mentorg.com Joris ATTENTION: If you're reading this article from the Microsoft Network, please be aware that you are supporting an evil and monopolistic software company. Please think about switching to a different provider. Thank you for your co- operation. -- -------------If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must Joris S. Zwart be the art of putting them in - Edsger W. Dijkstra jozwa@stack.urc.tue.nl http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~jozwa/ (PGP public key available by finger)-----------------#include <disclaimer.h>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl!not-for-mail From: jozwa@stack.urc.tue.nl (Joris Zwart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Date: 9 Aug 1995 17:10:20 +0200 Organization: De Firma List&Bedrog BV Message-ID: <WmGAmiY6zYeS073yn@stack.urc.tue.nl> References: <Ianm-2807950002170001@129.53.66.54> <3vhc1f$eps@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <schmeul-3107950906340001@pscmc3.chemistry.aa.wl.com> <DCrFw5.2nz@ecf.toronto.edu> <405tae$dp3@oddball.sjc.MENTORG.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl