On Thu, 3 Nov 1994 12:47:43 GMT, Simon Cooke said: > > I thought ProDos wrote CP/M format disks, so why does it need to cache > > anything?
Let me clarify that question. Why would calculating a random access on this system depend on caching, apart from storing the 32-byte directory entry(ies)? ... Oh never mind, I probably misunderstood the remark. > > If my calculations are correct, an entire FAT would require 128K so caching > > it would be rather expensive and therefore random access would be rather > > slow. I'm definitely not in favour of a FAT-based system. > Yeah, but how else are we supposed to thread the files? What is "threading the files"? imc
