Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
by camiller on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:35AM
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IIRC on the Apple the floppies were normally S6D1 and S6D2 (if you had two), unless you installed your floppy controller card in a slot other than Slot 6, which was the norm.
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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @02:23PM
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That would be DOS 3.x. You could specify a file under (Apple's) DOS with "long_filename,S6,D1". File names could have up to 33 chars and had type information (one byte) so as not to rely on naming conventions.
Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
by camiller on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @03:21PM
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Long file names were under Apple ProDOS Apple DOS was still 8.3 (I think).
Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @04:38PM
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No. Apple DOS filenames were limited to 30 chars. ProDOS was limited at 15 chars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS
My 33 figure was wrong (either me or Wikipedia). Maybe the directory entry had 33 bytes (30 for the file name, 1 for type, and two for track and sector)