Re: Evesham Vale PC's

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From: John Naismith
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article: <PL6nxJA4yQfxEwE5@mwb.u-net.com>  Marcus Bainbridge 
<marcus@mwb.u-net.com> writes:

> Also, Micro$oft are rumoured to be working (or have working) a proper
> FAT system which uses 512byte clusters, but it only works for Win95.

They do indeed (miracles will never cease - MS are actually in the 1990's!). 

However it will *not* be a retrofit option for existing Win95 setups, but will 
only be available for newly purchased copies of Win95. ie. from what I can 
gather, if you already have Win95 you will not be able to use this "new" FAT 
system - you'll have to purchase a new copy. Sounds insane I know, but that's 
what MS are saying in the US. Apparently a "Fixpack" a la OS/2 or NT is "too 
complex".

Spot the company shooting themselves in the foot again :-)

Or is it perhaps an attempt to recoup the cash lost on the development of Win95 
(or possibly *yet another* attempt to force people to NT) ?

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