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For questions regarding file systems and software interfaces to them.
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How did 512 Bytes come to be the most common sector size?
Sectoring on disks predates floppies. It was in widespread use on hard disks by the time floppies came around. Also, I would note that everything from 1 byte/word granularity to track-sized sectors …
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Why did MacOS Classic choose the colon as a path separator?
The original Macintosh File System did not support directories. But the Mac did support multiple floppy drives from the start, and colon : was used in fairly standard fashion as a drive prefix analog …
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