[Coco] a quick question

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:46 AM 12/27/2007, you wrote:

>Always wondered why Tandy / Radio Shack ever named the minimum file

>allocation space on the floppy disk a "GRANULE". Ahh!, a quick check at

>Wikipedia brought back this:

>

>*-------------

>In computer terms: A granule is a unit of contiguous (adjacent/bordering)

>virtual memory allocation.

>*-------------




Yep, Disk BASIC snatches 9 sectors at a time (a granule) no matter 
how small the file is or if only 1 byte past (9*256, 2304 bytes) 
causes a whole new granule to be allocated.