The Disc Filing System (DFS) is a computer file system developed by Acorn Computers, initially as an add-on to the Eurocard-based Acorn System 2. In 1981...
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Winchester Filing System, it was renamed to the Advanced Disc Filing System when support for floppy discs was added (using a WD1770 floppy disc controller)...
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The Compact Disc File System (CDFS) is a file system for read-only and write-once CD-ROMs developed by Simson Garfinkel and J. Spencer Love at the MIT...
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An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written...
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controller) so basic file access capacity is available even without the command interpreter, by using BASIC extended commands. Disc Filing System (DFS) is an optional...
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Internet Protocol based network file system. Other notable network file systems are Andrew File System (AFS), Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), NetWare Core Protocol...
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1900 and before the advent of computers the terms file system, filing system and system for filing were used to describe methods of organizing, storing...
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DFS (section File systems)
IEEE 802.11h wireless standard Disc Filing System, a filesystem developed by Acorn Computers Distributed file system, a method of storing persistent...
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modify operations. ADFS – Acorn's Advanced Disc filing system, successor to DFS. AdvFS – Advanced File System, designed by Digital Equipment Corporation...
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LV-ROM (category Rotating disc computer storage media)
stored using the Advanced Disc Filing System developed by Acorn Computers. Configured this way, each side of an LV-ROM disc could store up to 324 megabytes...
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file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...
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operating systems Advanced Disc Filing System, a file system implemented in Acorn and RISC OS computers Advanced Distributed File System, a defunct IBM file system...
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cassette and ROM filing systems and the Advanced Disc Filing System of Acorn MOS feature a rudimentary copy protection mechanism where a file with a certain...
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optical disc (typically a compact disc or DVD). To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an optical disc image with a full file system, of a type...
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ISO 9660 (redirect from Joliet (file system))
ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International...
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systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....
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Blu-ray (redirect from Blu-Ray disc)
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005...
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Extent-based file system for optical disc media MPE File System – the file system of the Multi-Programming Executive operating system. NTFS – used by Windows...
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cross-platform compatibility, multiple file systems can co-exist on one disc and reference the same files. Optical discs are most commonly used for digital...
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provides access to individual data and audio tracks on compact discs Compact Disc File System, or ISO 9660 CDFS, an acronym in electrical engineering that...
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The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded...
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Universal Disk Format (redirect from UDF File System)
vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats...
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Soft updates (category Unix file system technology)
Soft updates is an approach to maintaining file system metadata integrity in the event of a crash or power outage. Soft updates work by tracking and enforcing...
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also read the MDF format. A disc image is a computer file replica of the computer files and file system of an optical disc. Unlike an ISO image[citation...
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in a raw image depends on the file system of the target storage device (for example FAT). For example, an optical disc (i.e. CD or DVD) raw image contains...
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as the cassette filing system) in paged ROM 15 16 KB Acornsoft View (word processor) in paged ROM 14 16 KB Advanced Disc Filing System in paged ROM 13...
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Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods...
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BBC Micro (redirect from The BBC Microcomputer System)
combined with a filing system, starting with Acorn's 1982 Disc Filing System (DFS) which API became the de facto standard for floppy-disc access. The Acorn...
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Acorn Electron (section Cumana Floppy Disc System)
cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System, a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System. Having been envisaged as the basis...
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Phonograph record (redirect from Disc noise reduction system)
a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near the center of the disc. The stored...
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