Simplest (practical) file system?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Jul 27 19:35:06 2003

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Bob Shannon wrote:

> >This is your trade off. You can spend the programming time doing a more
> >proper filesystem ;)
> >
> It all comes down to available memory.
>
> We are talking about CPU's with a logical address space of 32K words.
> Much of that is already used, so I need
> something very small.

Apple ][ DOS 3.3, a simple but complete disk operating system, is
implemented inside of 10,752 bytes.

> And how 'correct' would it be to have a modern file system running on an
> HP2116 anyway? It may be far from
> practical.

It depends on how useful/usable you want it to be.

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