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Disk blocks
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Disk blocks are Collapse OS' main access to permanent storage.
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The system is exceedingly simple: blocks are contiguous
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chunks of 1024 bytes each living on some permanent media such
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as floppy disks or SD cards. They are mostly used for text,
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either informational or source code, which is organized into
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16 lines of 64 characters each.
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Blocks are referred to by number, 0-indexed. They are read
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through BLK@ and written through BLK!. When a block is read,
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its 1024 bytes content is copied to an in-memory buffer
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starting at BLK( and ending at BLK). Those read/write
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operations are often implicit. For example, LIST calls BLK@.
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(cont.)
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