Re: latest GPLE version

[David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> writes:
>"Mike Spurgeon" <mike@spurgeon.net> wrote in message
>news:CT7Ib.3440$Ki3.2119@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
>: Bill Garber wrote:
>:
>: > : Sneaky, isn't it? :-)
>: >
>: > Another mark of the Woz ingenious. ;-)
>:
>: Nothing to do with Woz.  It was Kersey or one of the other
>Beagle
>: Bros...

>I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that Beagle Bros. was
>responsible for developing ProDOS and DOS 3.3
>the way they did, making this little trick possible.

Woz designed the Disk II hardware but did he write DOS
or just RWTS? See http://apple2history.org/history/ah14.html

DOS 3.x uses track 17 for the catalog to keep
it in the middle of the disk so less seeking is needed.
ProDOS was designed to work on disks of various sizes
so this sort of optimization could not be done so the catalog
was put in block 2 where it could be found on any sized
volume.
-- 
David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia