Date   : Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:17:59
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Manual Re-labelling

Yes, the software was always ADFS but I suppose as the 1770 disc
interface hadn't been introduced at the time, ADFS could only
be used with hard discs hence Winchester Filing System.

The earliest version of ADFS I have seen is 1.00.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Rowbottom
To:  Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>,"Ian Wolstenholme"
<BBCMailingList@...>,
<bbc-micro@...>
Sent:  Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:22:45 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Acorn Manual Re-labelling

At 11:09 03/06/2006, Joel Rowbottom (having caught Ian's self-reply
fever) wrote:

>>The manual itself is proof positive of the existence of WFS (Winchester
>>filing system) as the early version of ADFS, referring back to an earlier
>>message on the list in this respect.
>
>The manual refers to ADFS though throughout - the drive was used on
>a Master, but there's a little ADFS 0.90 ROM in a box too.

Make that ADFS 0.5A.



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