Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Cawthon <mrc@ChipChat.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fragmentation Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.96.980924103528.86D-100000@MRC-Tiger.chipchat.com> In-Reply-To: <199809241407.KAA02432@laker.net>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > You're probably aware that DOS and Winblows use "clusters" of sectors, > due to poor design choices by IBM/Microsoft/Intel in the initial design > of the PC. Information is stored in disk sectors which are frequently (chop) > worth of sectors in the FAT table (File Allocation Table). That's an > incredible waste of space, and products are available to shrink the (chop) --------------------- Historical Note --------------------- I am pretty sure that the FAT file system was developed entirely by Microsoft - neither Intel nor IBM had any hand in its design. It is possible that Microsoft got the basic design of FAT from Seattle Computer Products, from whom they purchased SB-DOS and re-worked it to be MS-DOS 1.0. As I recall Bill Gates was personally credited with much of the technical design of FAT. This information is from my memory, which is neither ECC nor Parity, but is still "PGM" - Pretty Good Memory. Marty Cawthon ChipChat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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