> In addition to the CP/M, the Oki if800 also
existed with a version of
Microsoft Stand-Alone BASIC; similar, but not a match for
the NEC 8001.
Don't know how wide spread that was, the disks that I worked on were some
that Lee Felsenstein brought back from Soviet Union.
I also once assisted Don Maslin with an NEC 9801 disk with the Stand-Alone
BASIC format instead of either CP/M nor MS-DOS.
For those not familiar, it has a directory in the middle of the disk. The
directory consists of two parts, a linked list of clusters and a table of
directory entries. Each directory had filename (some were 6.2 instead of
8.3), file size, and starting cluster number. Radio Shack Coco is one
such, and the MS-DOS directory was inspired by it. Supposedly, Tim
Paterson's company (Seattle Computer Products) shared a booth with
Microsoft at NCC or the West Coast Computer Faire, and he liked the ideas
behind the Stand-Alone BASIC directory structure.
I have a vague late-70's memory of RSX-11 putting the directory in the