12 Jan
1999
12 Jan
'99
10:18 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Microsoft produced some "Stand-Alone BASIC"
systems. They had file IO,
and used a a directory structure that was, in principle, similar to that
of MS-DOS, although they subscribed to the seek center fallacy of putting
the directory on a track approximately halfway towards the center.
Remind me again about why this was a fallacy. I thought the idea was to
reduce the average seek time slightly by minimizing the average distance
the head traveled by factor of 2 versus a directory on a track at one end
of the disk.
-- Doug