[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

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On 08/23/12 01:46, David Froble wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>
>>> Spiralog wasn't just incomplete, it was seriously broken. UNIX is
>>> 10 years older than VMS, still shows it, and folks actually think of
>>> it as modern.
>>
>>
>> That is because Unix has evolved quite a bit during this time. Apple
>> ported its HFS file system to Unix, there is zfs and more traditional
>> file systems as well. And you can mount FST FAT32 NTFS etc as well.
>
> Here is where I get confused. Where did all these updates come from? Who
> payed to have them implemented?

Some Unix systems have a documented vfs (virtual file system) layer, 
which makes it 1) easy to implement new or old file systems and 2) makes 
an abstraction which seems worth to study or learn, when you want to 
understand how file systems work.