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To: Stitch who wrote (8879)	3/10/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: Robet Butkus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11057

Rebought some stock today

To: Stitch who wrote (8879)	3/10/1998 8:18:00 PM
From: William L. Vu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11057

HPFS: (high performance file system) is a NT file type only. FAT32 will allow smaller disk partition so you will not waste 32K or higher to store a 1K file size. Typical saving of 10% or more of disk space when use FAT32 over FAT16. FAT32 was available on WIN95 EOM B and not the original WIN95. WIN95 does not install FAT32 by default on a disk that previously has FAT16. I have been using NT4.0 and I disagree that users will migrate quickly from WIN95, WIN98 to NT 5.0. All hardware peripheral available has a Window 95 device driver as a default. WINNT driver are not always available for some of the cards that I want to add to my computer (especially the newly introduced devices). For this reason NT will continue to lag WIN95 and WIN98 OS. When the OS internal of WIN98 or beyond matchs that of the WINNT, thus force the common device drive development for hardware, then we will see the mass migration from WIN98 and beyond to WINNT.

To: Stitch who wrote (8879)	3/10/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Respond to of 11057

>> <<FAT32 and HPFS will blow the doors off PC disk expectations ... and that will reach it's fullest realization with Win98 and especially WinNT5.>> >> What exactly is HPFS? I understood that with Win 95, FAT32 was a reality. Not true, or wholly true? How will Win,98 be better? True ... but how many existing FAT16 PCs were converted? Not many, I think. No visibility ... WinNT install shows the choices ... which makes the issue visible for the first time. HPFS is the NT High-Performance File System >> You also mentioned: <<Also, I expect, based on my own experience, that NT5 will mark the transition of NT onto the consumer desktop.>> I confess ignorance here as well. How will NT be attractive to the average desktop consumer? Does everything Win9x does, looks the same ... and doesn't crash. Also ... it's new ... I expect a lot of folks to make dual-boot systems to check out NT5.