On 21 Oct 96  20:02:46 Frank Malcolm typed to Roy Mcneill about Cheep ewe

Hi Frank

 > RM> I think there's actually a nontrivial limit to the number of files
 > RM> that can be stored in the root dir. Dunno if it ever got fixed, or
 > RM> if it's hardwired into FAT.

 > Yeah, 112. It was a joke, Joyce. :-)

On the 5.25" 180k & 160k it was originally 64

This was increased to 112 on  the 5.25" 320k & 360k discs and also
on the 3.5" 320k, 360k 640k & 720k discs

The 5.25" 1.2 meg and 3.5" 1.44meg the number was increased to 224.

I haven't checked a lot of Hard Drives but the number can be 512  and would
I suspect, vary with the number of sectors per cluster or some other
criteria.

Cheers
Niels Petersen

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