(OT)Re: NTFS-like streams?

William Scott Lockwood III (thatlinuxguy@hotmail.com)
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:37:35 CDT

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>Actually, NT was derived from an internal code named project called
>"Windows N-10 (n-ten)" back in the days when Gates was trying to build
>MIPS workstations and a version of Windows to run on it in ca.
>1989/1990.

Ahem! OS/2! *COUGH* *COUGH*

After the lawsuit between IBM and Microsoft, the code (as I'm sure you know)
was evenly shared between the two. LARGE chunks of NT are really just OS/2
warmed over - like NTFS for instance. It's HPFS with a pretty face.
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