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Re: Apple II still ahead of the curve!

William Garber wrote:

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 1160991353.814512.121080@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com">news:1160991353.814512.121080@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
:
: PZ wrote:
: > I don't believe it.  The Focus card is 100% smartport compatible and
: > allows something like 32+ partitions under GSOS, ProDOS or otherwise,
: > with no onboard RAM that I know of.
:
: Are the partitions perchance fixed size, not including the last
: partition ?


No, as with the Microdrive, the partition table of
the Focus is stored on the drive itself. It is read
with each access of the drive.


Ouch!  So every access involves two seeks and two reads??

-michael

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