3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
4:55 p.m.
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
This is taking me back many years, and I didn't do
much with Apples
anyway, but IIRC the DOS 3.3 system came with a disk that you booted,
then replaced with a 13 secotr disk and it booted that. Since the new
state machine could handle 13 sector disks without problems, and since
the boot PROM was only used for booting, there was no problem after that,
the system acted as a 13 sector one). There was also a program, IIRC
called 'MUFFIN' (why???) on the 16 sector DOS disk that would transfer
files from 13 sector disks to 16 sector.
MUFFIN, good question. It's a somewhat symmetrical yet assymetrical
word, maybe suited for a conversion utility, and also fitting
in the vague pattern of food-like words for Apple software tools?
Tim.