Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:58:05 10/30/99
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On October 30, 1999 at 18:00:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 29, 1999 at 21:07:30, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On October 29, 1999 at 19:20:45, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>On October 29, 1999 at 18:33:14, Amir Ban wrote: >>> >>>>It so happens I'm quite familiar with Intel, and there's no truth in what you >>>>say. Intel will publish with a product anything that is needed to make you >>>>comfortable using it and buying it. That's quite a lot, usually, but they won't >>>>tell you anything beyond that. >>>> >>>>One of the things Intel currently does is a strategic effort to reinvent PC >>>>architectire from an open standard into something Intel-proprietary. The >>>>so-called "firmware hub", e.g., will replace the old BIOS, and the LPC bus >>>>replaces the ISA bus. The specifications are secret or restricted to Intel >>>>partners. If Intel succeeds in this, competitors like AMD will have a real >>>>problem. >>>> >>>>Microsoft is doing something similar in the past few years. They made DOS into >>>>the most successful OS ever by making it totally open and attracting third-party >>>>developers, who really made DOS successful. Microsoft now thinks that those >>>>third-party developers are a nuisance and they are closing many specifications. >>>>For example, NTFS (the NT file-system) is not documented. >>> >>>David A. Solomon >>>"Inside Windows NT / Second edition" >>>Microsoft Press, Redmond, Washington, USA 1998 >>>ISBN 1-57231-677-2 >>>Chapter 9 "Windows NT File System (NTFS)" >>> >> >>Does it give the file-system data structures ? >> >>Maybe I'm wrong about this. However, my company cooperates with Microsoft and at >>some point where one way to do something was to manipulate NTFS structures >>directly, Microsoft people told us to forget it since Microsoft won't disclose >>this information. >> >>Amir > >I think that you can get MS to give out enough information that you can write >your own IFS (installable file system), but not enough to tinker with NTFS, e.g. >my understanding is like Amir's, not Eugene's. > >I say this as someone who used to work at an optical storage VAR that was >experienced at developing drivers for Sun boxes and was specifically interested >in developing drivers for NT as well. > >Dave There are some 3rd party defragmenters for NTFS. Actually, I believe that prior to w2k *all* NTFS defragmenters were non-MS. Eugene
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