27 Jul
2003
27 Jul
'03
4:50 p.m.
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 :)