Haha, there’s still things embedded deep in code and in CPUs that go way back to the 80s. If only y’all knew. It’s all shit built on top of older shit, built on top of even older shit with kludges and hacks to glue it all together. Know why Windows has five different ways to access the same setting? Because if they get rid of the older methods, they break a ton of other shit that depends on it too. A house of cards or a Jenga tower.
A modern PC can STILL natively boot a DOS floppy from 1986 in legacy BIOS mode because of this.
Theres also examples in the corporate world where some companies are STILL running 70s mainframes, and use shiny new PCs as front end terminals that just connect to the same old backend.
The control panel peaked at windows 7 though
everything Windows peaked with Windows 7.
Imma gonna stop you there and say the peak was Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 was definitely peak, for its time.
but Windows 7 eclipsed it, and remains the best microsoft OS… I will fight and die on this hill <3
If we ignore the spontaneous BSOD, Windows 98 had the best performance among all systems lol
Seriously, each new windows update just adds a fresh new coat of paint on top, as if to make finding the actually useful win 7 and xp menus, that are still there, harder.
Linux Mint feels to me like what windows 10/11 should’ve been
ISA still exists on new, modern hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/isa-slot-tpm-soundblaster-header-pc
Not That Fresh System
Neanderthal Technology File System
It’s newer than FAT (1977)
The guy in charge of thinking of a new acronym probably retired 10 years ago.
There’s actually a retired microsoft engineer who makes very interesting videos about these kinds of things: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage
It was probably Dave or somebody he worked with lol. Super interesting videos talking about tech stuff, windows, and what MS was like during his time
Join Ext4!
Or APFS
It’s open source too
I lean more towards butter
You’re right.
That’s weird because I still remember the keynote where it was announced and I use an OS lib on Linux that I was sure was maintained by Apple.
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Yeah, new technology because it was the file system for Windows NT, which originally stood for… Windows New Technology.
Later Microsoft decided to just use NT as a moniker without any indication of it’s origins.
Me and my mates used to say it was short for “Not Tested”. Oh, how we laughed
how dare you bring this common sense to the guffahery!
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Never name anything with “New” in the name, it will look silly after a few years.
ReFS is a thing, but apparently not intended as a replacement (?)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview
Apparently Microsoft is going to move win 11 to refs but idk when. For all we know it might be in windows 12 only
Wasn’t that supposed to be come out with Longhorn? Wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for it.
Good to know.
New? Still can’t read ext4 fs.
Hey! 30 isn’t that old… Right?
I mean, it’s still way better than Fat, but incredibly incompatible with a lot of things still and new usb drives are always FAT. Shame ntfs didn’t catch on more.
External storage is always FAT, because everything can read FAT, so it just makes life easier for file transfers.
Not because NTFS/ext4/etc doesnt work on usb sticks.
Yeah, but that’s the shame. Ntfs been around for decades, would be great for usb as it allows faster transfer speeds and more secure. Would have been nice if more devices included it so it wasn’t such a compatibility barrier.
I’d rather have universal compatibility myself.
besides, its not like you cant reformat it to NTFS. They just come stock as fat so you can access them on any device.
The hardest problem in computer science is naming things. And counting things.
It was new at the time. Anyway, what is the best file system to use nowadays? zfs?
I think zfs is very popular with the honeserver crowd, but its not worth the hassle for desktop use. If you want something more fancy than ext4 there is btrfs which lets you take snapshots and checksums the data to detect corruption
ZFS is brilliant and all, as long as you only add disks, too bad if you want to rearrange your disks, you have to buy a new set of disks and move the data.
Btrfs is much better for home use, combine your old 3, 4 and 8tb disks into one, buy a new 16tb disk you add it and remove the 3tb disk.
