Category: RC2014
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Mass storage for the information age
Blocks The traditional Forth mass storage system is centred around the concept of BLOCKs. A BLOCK is traditionally a 1kilobyte chunk of storage. The design philosophy of CamelForth BootROM’s disk access is, like Forth itself, intentionally low-level. It views the entire disk as an array of blocks. Blocks are just data, they can be anything:…