file system support

[Thomas Pfau <pfau@maherterminals.com>]

Marek Habersack wrote:
>  - Linux supports much more file systems and partition types than NT ever
>    will.

I used to work for DEC.  I remember someone attributing a quote to Ken
Olsen (founder and long-time president) along the lines of 'the best way
to get two IBM systems to talk to each other is to put a DEC system
between them'.  He was commenting about DEC's ability to talk more IBM
protocols than on any given IBM machine.

Recently I was attempting to install Windows-98, Windows NT and linux on
the same system.  In order to use native file systems all around, I
would have to use linux and lilo for the primary bootstrap.  Linux can
read both NTFS and FAT32 but the two Microsoft offerings can't read or
boot each other's partitions.  I guess the best way to get two Microsoft
operating systems to talk to each other is to boot linux on the same
machine.

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