Atrix,
I really like your explanation! You have a good sense of humor.
I hope you can bring your wit to the conference this year.
Very Best Regards,
Razzak.
At 10:20 AM 3/4/2003 -0800, Atrix Wolfe wrote:
AFAIK, running dos programs has nothing to do with your file system, but everything to do with your OS.
The misnomer that NTFS cant run dos applications is probably caues by this: Back in win 98 days, there were 2 branches of windows, NT and regular. Regular could run dos apps, NT could not. Regular had FAT and FAT32 file systems, while NT had NTFS. These 2 branches converged around the windows 2000 time period and infact 2000 is a hybrid of NT and regular, but has problems running some DOS applications. Im not sure where XP fits between NT and "regular", but ive heard nothing but bad about XP. Seems like MS is too worried about their own agendas to address the needs of its customers and make a decent OS. But who do they have to answer to? deffinately not competition (hopefully that will change!)
think of it this way, lets say i have 2 books, each with the same content, but on the first book, the table of contents is listed alphabeticly. On the second book, its listed by chapter number (1,2,3 etc). If i open up chapter 3 entitled "R:Base Rocks!" in either book, wont it be the same chapter? Similarly, it doesnt matter what file system (NTFS or FATx) you are storing data in, when it gets into RAM where its evaluated or executed, it all looks the same.
whether XP can run DOS apps im not sure, but i can tell prettyt confidantly it has nothing to do with having NTFS or FATx.
