Re: [PLUG] OSX "middleware"?

[Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com>]

Art Alexion wrote:

> William H. Magill wrote:
> > On 24 Feb, 2005, at 09:26, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > Why does Apple's flagship product us a microsoft file system??
> >
> >
> >
> > The iPod isn't Apple's flagship product, only its most popular one -- 
> > there is a difference.
> OK
>
> > 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.
>
> Understood.  Just surprised that it was the proprietary OS of a 
> competitor instead of something else.
..wait, this part of the thread didn't get started because of a 
reference to a proprietary OS, but a reference to the most commonly used 
filesystem in the world, which happens to have been the primary FS of 
the competitor's proprietary OS.

MS does not own FAT12/16/32.  They did try to claim ownership of long 
filenames, but the courts settled that one some months back.  Their 
implimentation of FAT32 has some issues appearently....some page at 
microsoft.com points out that FAT32 can theoretically manage volumes of 
8 terabytes, but that WinXP pro can only handle FAT32 volumes of 32GB. 
Anybody know how the linux implementation weighs in?



there it is....
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp


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