On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:30:33 +0100, Giacomo Magnini wrote: > Sam Varshavchik ha scritto: > > > My old Atari ST computer used FAT on floppies. I think Amiga did to. > > No. Amiga used a very funny filesystem for their floppies. > > Maybe AFFS is funny by today's standards, but at the time it was much > more advanced than fat: > - long filenames > - more data on a floppy (880K instead of 720K) > - much faster (even for todays standard: ever tried formatting a floppy > under Win?) Even faster with low-level ASM based and Blitter-optimized file system access routines. ;) --
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