Posted by Citizen Bob on 09/15/06 17:07

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:00:56 +0200, Roberto Divia
<Roberto.Divia@cern.ch> wrote:

>> But there are FAT32 systems available from sources other than
>> Microsoft that are likely compatible with XP.

>My thought exactly. I said "a way that XP can read", not "taken from XP".
>Same as for several digital photo cams, readable directly on XP as a
>removable drive.

Your DVDR is a member of a class of computers called "embedded
systems", which is much larger than the PC market. There are a number
of operating systems that are used in those machines. Microsoft
dominates only a fraction of the overall computer scene.

The easiest way to tell if Microsoft products are being used in a
computer system: Test it and if it works reliably, it can't be
Microsoft. It is against Microsoft's religion to sell something that
works reliably.

For example, you Win2K users - run the disk Troubleshooter under
Properties in My Computer. You will discover that the help files are
missing. Microsoft never wrote the help files for the disk
troubleshooter. What a farce.


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