27 Jul
2003
27 Jul
'03
4:30 p.m.
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 :)