Re: Apple II still ahead of the curve!

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 1161140202.443488.55140@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com">news:1161140202.443488.55140@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
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: William Garber wrote:
:
: > : Ouch!  So every access involves two seeks and two reads??
: >
: >
: > That's not so bad. I'm sure it's not everytime,
: > but when the OS is just looking to see what it
: > has available. It must be stored in ram somewhere.
:
: I suppose it would be possible to store the start and end block for the
: most recently used partition in the screen holes with a check byte,
: which would be reasonably efficient, since volume swapping is
: infrequent.
:
: Hmm, actually, even if it doesn't do this, it's a reasonable idea, and
: a possible improvement over the scheme currently used on the CFFA
:
: Thoughts?
:
: Matt


FWIW, I like the way the CFFA works. That way you always
know what size your partitions should be.  :o)

William Garber
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