Hello all...
She's back!
It been a while and life intervened...? One of the things was getting a Z80MC to play with.
I have over a dozen CP/M systems and a few of my own creation both hardware and
highly modified software. CP/M is a very malleable OS and can support more than
most think or have tried.
So now I have a real Z80MC and the software is done is such a way as to be different
from the BIOS and loaders of my experience.? Back then it was floppy, hard disk,
Eprom based, and of course IDE/CF based,? With that FAT was never a consideration.
I find FAT too tightly tied to PCs and equally as fragile as? CP/M allocation scheme.
The other is that FAT offers a hierarchical file system and CP/M can't/doesn't use it.
It something I'd like to add to CP/M, that is a way to like from one device/Drive
to another (especially on large media).
The other is my system the typical disk is 8MB (or 32mb for ZRDOS) and multiple
partitions.? ?
If all goes well it will be a self development environment for a simpler OS like
NSDos, the goal there is to release it from hardware NS* MDS hard sector disk.
So it will be a playground for experiments started in some case over 45 years ago.
Allison
