[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Thu Jul 9 14:54:54 CDT 2009


gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:06:00PM -0400, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>> You can also mount a filesystem on an empty NTFS folder.  For example, i  
>> could mount a partition on windows as c:\users or c:\users\newuser or  
>> whatever.  Just set it up in disk manager, it's easy, just not too  
>> commonly used.
> 
> I think the whole point of this discussion is that while NT supports a 
> lot of intersting things with devices and filesystems, etc, everyone assumes
> it's just an version of DOS with pretty pictures on the screen.

Because most of the interesting things that the kernel supports MS has
either hidden from users or actually not made any effective use of at
all, while far too many of the legacy DOS limitations are still hanging
around.


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