J.C. Wren wrote:
> There was always the OS-9 approach (IIRC), that used the last two bytes of
> each sector to link to the next sector. Worked well enough, although not
> dealing with even powers of two can be a pain.
I thought OS/9 used a unix like file system. Flex
(
http://www.evenson-consulting.com/flexusergroup/default.htm )
does use the linked sector format. However remember 32k bytes
for programs was a large amount of memory back around 1975 and some
space still left for the OS for the people that never knew small
systems. CAN you say 8k basic :)
Received on Sun Jul 27 2003 - 23:30:01 BST