Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Bob Shannon wrote:
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The trick then becomes how to efficiently
'squeeze' the disk drive to
recover space from deleted files?
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.
And how 'correct' would it be to have a modern file system running on an
HP2116 anyway? It may be far from
practical.