clipka wrote:
> While the low-level code to perform the actual /swapping/ of individual 
> blocks of NTFS may well be MS stuff,  /everything/ on top - including
> such essential decisions as where to put which block of a file - is up 
> to individual software tools,

Yes.  But that's really pretty trivial stuff compared to actually writing 
the code in the file system that makes it work.

Executive Software wrote the code to do the swapping on the VAX, too. I.e., 
they wrote *all* the code, not just the code to invoke the API to defragment 
a file.

> and if MS did write anything of that which 
> is included in Windows XP, then apparently it's only the UI.

If MS wrote the UI for XP, then everything is written by MS, since the UI 
for XP just makes the decisions about where to put the blocks of the files 
and swaps them. I.e., if MS wrote the UI for XP, and the algorithm for 
picking which files to move where, and the API for swapping the blocks, then 
they wrote everything, right?

I'm not sure I'm following. I'm just talking about it having two parts - the 
UI, and the file system operations.

> According to Wikipedia, the defragmenter that shipped with Windows 9x 
> was no MS stuff either, but licensed from Symantec.

Yes.

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