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From: brent@orsvax1.UUCP (Brent Chivers)
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Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDos...
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 16:52:21 EDT
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> I don't know of any DOS that doesn't allow unlimited directory sizes,

According to the VIC-1541 Single Drive Floppy Disk User's Manual
(the drive used by the Commodore 64 and VIC-20):

Figure 1.1	Specifications
STORAGE		Directory Entries	144 per diskette

Tables 5.2 and 5.3 show the directory structure as a linked list, so
I guess the limiting factor (if the manual is correct) must be in the
1541's internal ROM DOS code routines.

(I've never come anywere near the 144-file limit on a 170K disk. :-)
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