Long base passwords

[pragmatic]

Very interesting, and as it turns out there is a wiki page that calls this out specifically:

http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=oclhashcat_lite

PHP Code:

Hash-Type        min length        max length
NTLM                1                27 


Does windows itself share this limitation or is it just a common simplification among other implementations? Obviously I can test I just figured someone might know offhand.