Re: ProDOS Plus

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1183287598.028105.187190@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
mdj  <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep. Sparse files is one of the more innovative concepts in ProDOS,

:-)

Sparse files were available already in Apple DOS 3.3 as well as in CP/M-80,
both of which predated ProDOS.

In MS-DOS though, sparse files had vanished - they reappeared in Windows-NT,
if you used an NTFS rather than a FAT partition.

Of course Unix supported sparse files all the time....

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