[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> 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.

It was in at least Windows 2000.

>> [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.

That's putting it mildly.

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Michael Parson
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