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"André Gulliksen" <andre.gulliksen@start.no> wrote in message
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> AlexHolzl wrote:
>> *Ok, so I dont get it. Am I just not understanding XP?
>> I clearly see that XP Home is insalled (with SP1 & SP2)
>> Yet when I try to run simple programs, it says that it's (they)
>> are not compatible for NT. What is NT? Someone, please help me out.
>
> NT is the result of a cooperation between Microsoft and IBM, which then
> split and ended up in two different products: Microsoft Windows NT (New
> Technology) 3.11 (which was effectively Windows 3.11 with a new core
> replacing MS-DOS) and IBM OS/2. NT was later succeeded by various versions
> up to 3.51. Then came NT 4.0, which was NT with the Windows 4.0 interface
> (also used in Windows 95). Before release NT 5.0 was rebranded to "Windows
> 2000", with the tagline "built on NT technology". This tagline has been
> slightly toned down since then, but for all purposes Windows XP == Windows
> NT 5.1 with a fancy name.
>
And MS based that NT(FS) technology on the filing system which was IBM's
HPFS, and locked out anything HPFS from using NTFS.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/over-c.html
" Before there was Windows NT, there was OS/2. OS/2 was a joint project of
Microsoft and IBM in the early 1990s; the two companies were trying to
create the next big success in the world of graphical operating systems.
They succeeded, to some degree, depending on how you are measuring success.
:^) OS/2 had some significant technical accomplishments, but suffered from
marketing and support issues. Eventually, Microsoft and IBM began to
quarrel, and Microsoft broke from the project and started to work on Windows
NT. When they did this, they borrowed many key concepts from OS/2's native
file system, HPFS, in creating NTFS "