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To: coco@pucc.princeton.edu
Reply-To: knudsen@ihades.att.com


>devices are laid out considerably differently.  (One big example: if OS-9000
>RBF sees that the entire contents of a file would fit in the file descriptor
>sector, it will put them there.)  Also, if you're moving from OS-9/68000 to

Neat trick, James.  But the irony is that the slight disk savings
mean little on a 486 box, would this scheme would've really helped out
us Coco hackers with 360K disks.

I guess it still helps big blue boxes if you have *lots* of little files
like device descriptors, AIFs, and preferences-inits.

>OS-9000/80x86, then you have moving between processors to worry about--the
>canonical example of this being byte ordering.

Ah yes, the little-endian Intels.  One of the things I look
forward to ( :-) if I ever get around to porting Umuse to MessyDog.