The 'consumer grade' version of Win2000 will be based on the win98 code.  I was
hoping that OS would finally die and when I heard this I was really disappointed.

I'm sure they are doing this so they can throw new features into it without
making them work first.

-Mike

Ron Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:06:45 +0300, Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee> wrote:
> >Well, if Win2000 has a file system similar to NT, MS-DOS simply can't read
> >the partition, right? Even Win98 is a horrible pain when running classic DOS
> >apps.
>
> Well, since Win2000 *is* NT, of course it's similar.  In fact, it's NTFS 5,
> which is not compatible with NTFS 4, so even NT4 SP3 has trouble with it.
> There are drivers available that can read (but not write) NTFS partitions
> from DOS, however (they ignore security, too!)

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