Diskomania: a small-system floppy disk operating system

  • Authors:

  • Wayne Sewell

  • Affiliations:

  • Dallas, Texas

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '77 Proceedings of the June 13-16, 1977, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

This paper describes the fundamental structure of DISKOMANIA, a floppy-disk operating system designed for the small system user. The important properties of the system are: (1) ability to interface to a wide variety of non-standard I/O devices. (2) a relatively small amount of memory dedicated to the permanently-resident portions of the system. (3) a simple yet flexible command structure for data transfers and operating system functions.