Re: DOS Master, invisibility, and solutions

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

On Mar 20, 4:33 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> But providing a tree-structured directory structure, as ProDOS does,
> is a much more general solution to this problem.

And the best possible disk manager for Pascal would allow treating
ProDOS directories as Pascal Volumes.

> It was actually the very primitive free-space management scheme that
> Pascal used which required partitioning into smaller logical volumes.

No. It was the 77 file limit. The free space could always defragmented
or K)runched in Pascal tongue. There was just little point in having a
volume much bigger than 3-400k since you'd invariably run out of
directory space before you ran out of free blocks.

Matt