Well I fully expect to get rip'ed for the following, but:
So do you think that MS having helped develop, and having the source code for HPFS, did not use any of it in developing NTFS? Heck, when you create a NTFS partition, it uses HPFS as the partition type. As MS controlls FDISK, if NTFS was not based on HPFS, then why would they NOT create a new paritition type just for NTFS? Especially since they created 4 different partition types for Windows 95 new partition types: FAT32, FAT32 LBA, FAT16 LBA, and "Ext'ed" LBA.
IIRC:
I beleive that Linus started Linux while working on a project using Minix. Although it is documented that he did not use any Minix code in the kernel,it is documented that he ported other software to Linux in order to do development under Linux, like bash and gcc. Do I beleive that Linus wrote the kernel from scratch, yes. Do I beleive that everything in the original distribution was created from scratch, no, he has documented that he ported some components from exsting programs.
Now, Linus was an innovator. I beleive that he developed many things from scratch.
Most of what MS has in the OS world was purchased or "borrowed" from others.
Maybe, maybe not. I did a few google searches and found a few sites that had old stories that stated the MS developers took what they learned when the wrote HPFS with IBM for OS/2. So, I may be wrong with "modifed version of", but it was not created from scratch, it is based on concepts they learned while helping create HPFS
What comes around goes around.
MS did license Unix from AT&T and created Xenix. However, guess who MS actually outsourced the development to for Xenix. SCO.
OS/2 V1.0 was a MS product, infact 1.1 may have been MS also. It was not until 1.2 that it was IBM only.
MS and IBM had a falling out and they each took the existing code from 1.1 and went their own merry way.
MS wanted to keep "Windows" alive, so IBM got the OS/2 name. Although I never saw this, I have been told that the early releases of Windows NT actually had OS/2 in the error messages.
NTFS is a modified version of HPFS, that is why NTFS partitions show up as HPFS partitions in partitioning products.
I have been told that AIX's JFS is based on HPFS.
Well, lets see I got invloved in mainframe computers in the early 80's. Back then "departmental computing" was going to wipe mainframes out. Well they are still around and still growing and I still hear that "something" (Client/Server, "the web", Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.) is going to wipe them out.
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Well I fully expect to get rip'ed for the following, but: So do you think that MS having helped develop, and having the source code for HPFS, did not use any of it in developing NTFS? Heck, when you create a NTFS partition, it uses HPFS as the partition type. As MS controlls FDISK, if NTFS was not based on HPFS, then why would they NOT create a new paritition type just for NTFS? Especially since they created 4 different partition types for Windows 95 new partition types: FAT32, FAT32 LBA, FAT16 LBA, and "Ext'ed" LBA. IIRC: I beleive that Linus started Linux while working on a project using Minix. Although it is documented that he did not use any Minix code in the kernel,it is documented that he ported other software to Linux in order to do development under Linux, like bash and gcc. Do I beleive that Linus wrote the kernel from scratch, yes. Do I beleive that everything in the original distribution was created from scratch, no, he has documented that he ported some components from exsting programs. Now, Linus was an innovator. I beleive that he developed many things from scratch. Most of what MS has in the OS world was purchased or "borrowed" from others.
Maybe, maybe not. I did a few google searches and found a few sites that had old stories that stated the MS developers took what they learned when the wrote HPFS with IBM for OS/2. So, I may be wrong with "modifed version of", but it was not created from scratch, it is based on concepts they learned while helping create HPFS
What comes around goes around. MS did license Unix from AT&T and created Xenix. However, guess who MS actually outsourced the development to for Xenix. SCO. OS/2 V1.0 was a MS product, infact 1.1 may have been MS also. It was not until 1.2 that it was IBM only. MS and IBM had a falling out and they each took the existing code from 1.1 and went their own merry way. MS wanted to keep "Windows" alive, so IBM got the OS/2 name. Although I never saw this, I have been told that the early releases of Windows NT actually had OS/2 in the error messages.
NTFS is a modified version of HPFS, that is why NTFS partitions show up as HPFS partitions in partitioning products. I have been told that AIX's JFS is based on HPFS.
IIRC not only was it some of Steve Jobs' engineers, Steve hired MS to do some of the OS development.
Well, lets see I got invloved in mainframe computers in the early 80's. Back then "departmental computing" was going to wipe mainframes out. Well they are still around and still growing and I still hear that "something" (Client/Server, "the web", Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.) is going to wipe them out.
Normaly there is an option for boot devices, I can't remebmer what option I had, but i think it was USBFloppy.
Not sure if this will help. I had to enable USB support for DOS in my BIOS settings before I could boot of USB.