Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:49:49 08/12/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 11:49:37, Matthew Hull wrote: >On August 12, 2004 at 11:09:14, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On August 12, 2004 at 09:30:27, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >>>On August 11, 2004 at 22:35:37, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >>> >>>>On August 11, 2004 at 22:10:49, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>>> >>>>>... >>>>> >>>>>The nice thing about journaling filesystems is that should >>>>>your computer crash or lose power, your filesystem itself will >>>>>never be corrupt. >>>> >>>>Yes, and that is exactly what NT is doing :-) Metadata writes are write-though. >>>>There were lot of complains when users switched from Win2k to WinXP (or >>>>installed Win2k Service Pack), and some found that their disk operations became >>>>slower. The reason was that there was a bug in Win2k when for some disk models >>>>metadata sometimes went into disk cache instead. Of course that speed the things >>>>up, so overall performance went down when the bug was fixed :-) >>> >>>Cool, I didn't realize that NTFS is now a journalled filesystem. >> >>It was such from the day one. NT 3.1 was released in 1993 with first version of >>NTFS. >> >>Thanks, >>Eugene > > >But normal users could not afford the price MS was asking for basic stability. >Instead, users were forced to pony up for products like the Win95/98. > >No fond memories there. According to http://www.theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wntw.htm and http://www.theosfiles.com/os_other/ospg_other_os2.htm, NT was priced at $319, while IBM OS/2 price was $259. I don't see large difference here. Plus you could buy fully functional "Windows NT Workstation for Academic users" for $139. Thanks, Eugene >> >>>I always like >>>to hear neat software development stories; I've been reading a bit of Raymond >>>Chen's blog and its pretty interesting. >>> >>>Unfortunately you guys will never fix your GUI problems :( >>> >>>anthony
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