[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:28 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)  
wrote:

> " From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> "
> " On Jul 9, 2009, at 15:06 , 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.
> "
> " Yes, I've done that.
>
> if you wanted to move docs and settings to another slice, you'd also
> have to do the ms registry hack anyway - right?

Mounting a drive as a subfolder isn't a registry hack, it's supported  
by the WinXP/Server 2003 GUI as I recall.

> [dim memory] dos 3.1 had 'join' - i recall using it in the late '80s,
> putting 40M drives in and having to make 2 partitions.  i made d: the
> big one and joined it to c:\user or c:\home or something, then put an
> autoexec to cd the users into it...

WinXP markedly different from Win3.1/WfW.

Lionel