Re: Apple IIe - Partition and Format a Hard drive on a Focus IDE card

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 21, 7:40 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> About a decade ago, I had the same problem and offered to take a look at
> the utility with the aim of creating a //e version.  I found the source
> so complex and inpenetrable (I'm not a IIgs programmer) that I gave up
> and used a IIgs for partitioning!  ;-(
>
> I worked on a //e partitioning utility for a SCSI drive once, and it
> was quite easy, but I couldn't even identify the data structures
> being dealt with, they were so obscured by GUI code!
>
> It's a great example of using a cannon to shoot a mouse.

The real 'sin' is not separating application logic from UI. Where that
the case, it'd be trivial to reuse it in a text-based version of the
utility (albiet with some tweaking to 8bitify it)

And the tragedy? It's 2008 and *still* programmers are breaking this
fundamental law of software engineering

Matt