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Re: Apple Disk Drives

Subject: Re: Apple Disk Drives
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:25:17 +1200
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william strutts <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote:

> MFS - Mac File System was the original file system
> sported on the Macintosh for the 128K and Fat Mac.
> The Mac Plus introduced the HFS system.  I don't
> believe you can format a MFS disk on IIgs and why
> would you want to??  It only worked with Mac
> Finder Version 1.0.  If I recall right, it didn't support
> file sub directories that is why they introduced
> Hierarchial File System or HFS.  Similar to the differences
> between DOS 3.3 and Pro-DOS.

MFS continued to be supported up to about Mac OS 8.0 (probably including
support for formatting an MFS disk).  Mac OS 8.1 dropped it.

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