PeteDotCom -> Networking -> Misc -> File System ->   Ms-WinNT4.0 Supports up to 32 processors SMP: Symmetric Multi-Processing       - Tasks are chopped up equally across the CPUs HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer      - Separate the hardware from Windows NT         Executive      - Allows WinNT40 to operate on many processors         - Intel         - MIPS R4000         - Digital Alpha AXP         - Power PC File Systems NTFS:      - New Technology File System      - Up to 255 character file names      - Up to 16 Eb ( Exabytes or  264 bytes) FAT:      - File Allocation      - Supports 8.3 files format HPFS:      - High Performance File System      - Up to 2.1 Terabytes      - Up to 254 character file names CDFS:      - Compact Disk File System I/O: Input/Output ISA:      - Industry Standard Architecture      - 8 MHz clock rate      - 16-bit MCA:      - Micro Channel Architecture      - IBM PS/2 standard      - Up to 10MHz      - 32 bit EISA:      - Extended Industry Standard Architecture      - 32 bit VESA:      - Video Electronic Standards Association Local         Bus (VL-bus)      - 32 bit      - up to 33MHz PCI:      - Peripheral Component Interconnect      - 32 bit      - 66 MHz Hard-Disk Drives      - ESDI:Enhanced Small Device Interface by Maxtor      - IDE: Integral Drive Electronics by Compaq      - EIDE: Enhanced Integral Drive Electronics      - SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface      - SCSI-2: Up to 16 controllers on two chains      - Fast SCSI-2: Twice as fast as SCSI-2