Re: fragmentation

[Marty Cawthon <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)

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Historical Note
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  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
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