Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> There is a relevant difference between DOS Defrag and a Windows one, 
>> back when Win3.11 "was" basically just DOS with a GUI? lol
> 
> Yes, lol. Because you ran the defrag under DOS, nothing else ran at the 
> same time, lol.
> 
>>>> and MS never bothered to steal the idea of fixing it from the few 
>>>> companies whose products **did** do it. ;)
>>>
>>> Cite?  Certainly the XP defragmenter moves files around to open up 
>>> free spaces.
>> Hmm. Nope. 
> 
> OK. I guess you don't know what "cite" means. :-)
> 
You want me to what? Find a web page written by someone even more 
annoyed by the behavior than I am to give a jaded statement to the same 
effect? lol Seriously though, I don't dispute that it "does" move things 
around. What it doesn't do is "move them if it doesn't see any reason 
to, and consolidating free space isn't always, apparently, a 'reason'". 
And it flat out refuses to move things that it "could", if the bothered 
to put in some way to copy a block of an "in use" file, and.. well do 
the stuff that defraggers do to every other file anyway. I mean, can you 
seriously tell me that they couldn't come up with "some" way to be able 
to, I don't know, write a block of memory to some other part of the 
virtual file, then invalidate the part being moved, then revert again 
when done, or "something"?

And, the idea that DOS based defraggers where the only ones in 3.11 
isn't "entirely" accurate. The Norton one came up during 3.11, and it 
"did" defrag "everything", at that time, including the virtual memory 
file, and just about anything and everything else "except" for a small 
handful of active files in the OS. Say, 90% of all the stuff that no 
defragger today will even touch, for the most part.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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