My "balderdash" has nothing to do with the defense of Gordon Letwin or
Microsoft (which I intensely dislike) but everything to do with a
specific refutation of your claim that Microsoft was somehow hiding the
specs for FAT and that's why Apple could be expected to have trouble
implementing FAT32.
You said:
> Microsoft grudgingly made the FAT specs public only after everyone had
> already reverse-engineered it. They certainly HAVE NOT made public
> their techniques for recovering when it is corrupted!
>
> Apple is attempting to deal with someone else's proprietary stuff
> here.
Your statement was simply wrong regardless of whether Gordon Letwin
developed HDOS, Windows can't read a UNIX file system, you're the new
Maytag repairman, you drive on biodiesel or live in a mud and straw hut.
And I don't have any apologies for being part of the problem.
Chuck Norcutt
Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Gordon Letwin at
>> Microsoft developed FAT32...
>
> Based on the HDOS file system he did for Heathkit even earlier!
>
> A freshly-formatted HDOS disk, when examined with a hex editor,
> contained the ASCII pattern "JGLJGLJGLJGL" (for J. Gordon Letwin).
> (At least on the H-89 I built after I tired of flipping switches on
> the MITS Altair 8800 system I built before that.)
>
> You can "balderdash" all you want, but Apple will still read FAT32
> better than Windows reads a UNIX filesystem, which has been stable
> and public since, what, Ritchie & Thompson, 1972 or so?
>
> There's one great thing about Microsoft -- there's TONS of money for
> consultants and "fixers" out there! The three worst years of my life
> (professionally) were also the three most profitable, when I spent 60
> + hours a week trying to do financial systems on Wall Street with
> WinNT. Unlike the "Maytag Repairman" syndrome if you try to make a
> living working on Mac systems.
>
> Don't get me wrong, there's nothing magical about Apple. It's simply
> the "dominant player syndrome!" I'm sure if Apple had a dominant
> position, they'd be the #1 arrogant a**hole computer company instead
> of Microsoft. I don't like Apple because they're Apple, it's because
> they have to work harder for their customers, instead of disdainfully
> taking them for granted, like Microsoft does.
>
> I drive on biodiesel I make myself (when not cycling or walking),
> shoot Olympus, make buildings out of mud and straw, strive to eat
> food and use goods and services that come from within 100 miles of my
> home, and compute on a Mac. Subvert the dominant paradigm! If you're
> not part of the solution, you're just part of the problem.
>
> (Leaving a HUGE opening for Moose to jump in here with some
> vituperative expletive, since I'm almost sure he's 180-degrees away
> from the sentiments above... :-)
>
>
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