Pascal System

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Thu Feb 26 11:36:13 1998

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Mike Allison wrote:

> Not quite...
> This is the UCSD P System which means that there is no way to copy it to
> the HD as this _IS_ the operating system. That's what I'm looking for a
> way to "find" if you will, the hard drive to at least work from, if not
> boot from.

I think this calls for the development of a custom Pascal unit to access
foreign filesystems (ie. FAT). I don't think Pascal gives you enough low
level control to do this right from the language itself, but I'm sure
there are ways to link in assembled code. A project to add to the
spare-time list.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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