Yea, I think you're right. I knew it was one of the 6800 or 6809 OS's, but
it's been so long, I couldn't remember for sure. Either one was still a
pretty decent OS, in my book. Prolly better than CP/M 2.2.
--John
On Monday 28 July 2003 00:22 am, ben franchuk wrote:
> 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 - 23:50:00 BST