Re: Apple II still ahead of the curve!

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message bOadnXMYQfSatKnYnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d@comcast.com">news:bOadnXMYQfSatKnYnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d@comcast.com...
: 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??


That's not so bad. I'm sure it's not everytime,
but when the OS is just looking to see what it
has available. It must be stored in ram somewhere.

William Garber
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