Re: NTFS partitions show up as OS/2 partitions.

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 03 Dec 1998 21:29:39 -0500

In message <19981204020745.AAA27119@pcs486.pittscomp.com>, "Matthew D.
Pitts" w
rites:
+-----
| > Microsoft reused the OS/2 IFS (not "HPFS"; *all* OS/2 installable
| > filesystems must use the same partition ID, ignoring dirty tricks such as
|
| > ext2flt.sys) for NTFS. Probably for the same reason that OS/2 does;
| despite
| > the hype, the innards of NT are still recognizeably based on OS/2 2.0.
|
| Actually, since OS/2 was originally a joint venture, HPFS and NTFS share
+--->8

I assumed that most people were aware of the fact that NT and OS/2 2.x and
later are both (somewhat loosely, in NT's case) derived from their common
proto-OS/2-2.0 codebase after Microsoft and IBM went their separate ways.
Each one proceeded to mutate the proto-OS/2-2.0 into their idea of what OS/2
"should be".

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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