[Coco] Open Letter to those who will be attending the The 24thAnnual "Last Chicago CoCoFEST April 25-26, 2015

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 14:26:17 EDT 2015


On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> backup. But it would have been a zero problem had people (including me)
> invoked my advice about the SAS setting in the descriptor.  Or I should
> have waited until I could figure out where to limit the segmnent table
> to 47 entries.  Even on a floppy, it should never have been under $10,
> and preferably $20.  The default of $08 has used up the segment tables
> 48 entries at a file size of 98,304 bytes under the worst scenario
> conditions.  That, at some point will be encountered on a 35Trk, SS
> disk. Best scenario would be at 524,288 bytes, disk full before segment
> table on all but 720k floppies.
>
> The repo's value has I believe been raised if Tormod had applied my
> proposed commits.

What do you mean by that?

Tormod


More information about the Coco mailing list