11 Jan
1999
11 Jan
'99
12:39 p.m.
"D. Peschel" <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> wrote:
TOPS-6, I believe. (Yes, that's an ancestor of TOPS-10.) The structure was
called the Storage Allocation Table and was pretty much the same idea.
Somewhere I probably still have have an e-mail message I got from one of the
TOPS developers, when I asked him about this topic.
It may comfort you to know that MS ripped off the
FAT system (like
practically everything else).
>From whom? (or what?) > And the original didn't even work very well!
It worked fine, when you knew that there would never
be media with a storage
capacity greater than about 1,025,024 bytes, i.e., the original 86-DOS with
8-inch double-sided double-density diskettes.
Except for the problem of corruption, lost chains, and all that garbage.
(As I understand it, in some cases it's not possible to write a program to
fix errors, because there just isn't enough redundant information!) The
original TOPS-6 had the same problem.
-- Derek