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I find it fascinating that the drive hardware manages the filesystem. When did it become that the OS software managed the filesystem, and in the end, which is b
by russfink 3y ago
I find it fascinating that the drive hardware manages the filesystem. When did it become that the OS software managed the filesystem, and in the end, which is better?
- userbinator 3y agoWhen did it become that the OS software managed the filesystem I think among early computers the C64 drive was somewhat of an exception; in some ways it's more like a NAS than a block device.
- myrandomcomment 3y agoThis was unique to Commodore. They owned MOS which made the chips so it was not as costly for them to do this. Honestly it sucked longer term because there was no way to really upgrade how the filesystem DOS worked unlike on the Apple or the Atari. It was cool however because there were tools that offloaded things to the drive CPU. You could also write programs for copying disk that you loaded into the RAM on the drive and then disconnected them from the computer. You used the drive lights to tell you when to swap the disk.