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Agreed, the idea is quite nifty, but you could probably create a simple file system (names, marking off clusters, etc) in less than four sectors.
Hmm, maybe I should do that...
Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
Now if you're running off a CD you have 2048 bytes/sector plus some padding used for error correction and stuff, so you have a sector size of something like 2.3 KB.
Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.