On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 06:39:05 -0700
"Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
> OS/2 had IBM cache technology in it which worked properly.
I remember OS/2. I remember that, like VMS, you could back up the
whole OS to ... well, floppies, I suppose, and later restore them to
brand new drive, with nothing else required. I couldn't believe my
eyes when the equivalent "system restore" process on NT started with
1. Install the OS.
Twenty-five years on, that's still SOP on NT, except that nowadays no
one expects to restore a backup anyway!
But IIRC, NTFS was a Microsoft invention, not connected to OS/2, and
borrowed quite heaviily from VMS, because David Cutler. So I'm
inclined toward your low-wattage theory, because hardly anything Cutler
originally provided remains unsmudged.
--jkl
