17 Sep
2012
17 Sep
'12
8:36 a.m.
On 16 Sep 2012 at 23:57, Eric Smith wrote:
So my question is, are there any published works
documenting the
TRS-DOS file system on-disk format, especially the use of the HIT
table, other than "TRS-80 Disk and Other Mysteries" by H. C.
Pennington?
I'm sure that if you delved into the mainframe world software (which
may be hard to do), you'd find similar schemes. Hashing for filename
lookup wasn't all that uncommon--after all, it was used in just about
every compiler I ever ran into for symbol table lookup But computer
software patents weren't allowed back then, which makes the claim of
"prior art" hard to make.
--Chuck