[iyonix-support] Re: Setting 'Next' size
- From: John McCartney <j.mccartney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:53:24 +0100
In article <4e225c24eblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Williams
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there any reason BTW why the default setting is 640K?
> I seem to remember that's what it was on early PCs, and
> it was ridiculously large for economical RISC OS programs
> at the time.
> Could it be 360K disks and 1 MB memory? That seems to
> work number-wise.
If you menu over the floppy disc icon and look at the list
of format options, you'll find out why it's 640K. As far as
I'm aware, it's nothing at all to do with PCs. It's o that
an entire ADFS L format floppy can be copied into memory.
John
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