| William H. Magill on 24 Feb 2005 18:46:32 -0000 |
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On 24 Feb, 2005, at 09:26, Art Alexion wrote: Carlos Konstanski wrote:Why does Apple's flagship product us a microsoft file system??Yes, gtkpod will get tunes on and off your iPod. I will get that HFS patch soon. And you can always format the iPod as FAT32 if you wish, which will circumvent all filesystem issues. This is what Windows (pardon my French) does to iPods. The iPod isn't Apple's flagship product, only its most popular one -- there is a difference. The iPod uses an operating system purchased from a third party (if you are interested, it is, or at least the first generation OS was, written in a dialect of SNOBOL!). As was pointed out -- "embedded systems" are a whole different kettle of fish. Many things can be done because the product has a very specific and restricted set of things which it is required to do. Consequently there are many things which an "embedded system" can do to maximize various aspects of its operation, from OS footprint to FS optimization ... and, even with today's "huge" chips and such, "small" is still the name of the game for "embedded systems," simply because "bigger" directly translates to "more expensive" at the bottom line. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.3.7 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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