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On Atari 8-bits, the filesystem ran on the computer itself. There was an MOS 6507 processor in the drive, but that was for communicating on the SIO bus. https:
by DerekL 2y ago
On Atari 8-bits, the filesystem ran on the computer itself. There was an MOS 6507 processor in the drive, but that was for communicating on the SIO bus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050
- rbanffy 2y agoFascinating. I wonder if one could fit a filesystem in the floppy ROM - this would free up memory in the host computer for other operations, and allow extended functionality in the filesystem that's absent from existing implementations.