Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 22:35:44 10/30/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 00:58:05, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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 By tinker, I meant going deeper than the API layer that is provided. Dave
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