Date   : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:33:17 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 29/07/2010 10:30, michael.firth@... wrote:

> But the Beeb still manages to have more file Metadata than Windows -
> you get a minimum (on DFS) of 18 bit load and execution addresses,
> while Windows has none.

Windows does not require load/exec addresses. NTFS offers creation date, 
modification date, and last access date.


> To be fair, these days Windows has longer filenames than the Beeb,

Via a kludge (fake directory entries) on top of an 8.3 naming system.


> I think the Arc access times and file types ended up in the BBC
 > load/exec address space on an ADFS floppy.

To quote Wiki: "A per-file "type" attribute was added in space 
previously used to store Load and Execute addresses." :-)


This did mean some oddities with Econet which offers load/exec AND a 
timestamp, something that can't be ported to the Arc [timestamp 
overwrites load/exec]. DFS doesn't support both, either.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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