On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote:
> >>> In addition to the CP/M, the Oki if800 also existed with a version of > Microsoft Stand-Alone BASIC; similar, but not a match for the NEC 8001. > Don't know how wide spread that was, the disks that I worked on were some > that Lee Felsenstein brought back from Soviet Union. > I also once assisted Don Maslin with an NEC 9801 disk with the Stand-Alone > BASIC format instead of either CP/M nor MS-DOS. > For those not familiar, it has a directory in the middle of the disk. The > directory consists of two parts, a linked list of clusters and a table of > directory entries. Each directory had filename (some were 6.2 instead of > 8.3), file size, and starting cluster number. Radio Shack Coco is one > such, and the MS-DOS directory was inspired by it. Supposedly, Tim > Paterson's company (Seattle Computer Products) shared a booth with > Microsoft at NCC or the West Coast Computer Faire, and he liked the ideas > behind the Stand-Alone BASIC directory structure. > > > I have a vague late-70's memory of RSX-11 putting the directory in the middle of the disk. -- Charles