CP/M 1.3 memory requirement

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed Nov 1 17:54:01 2000

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>


> Certainly even the earliest of CP/M releases offered more
>than the North Star DOS that would've shipped with thier disk
>systems? This system included DOS ver. 2 and BASIC ver. 6, Release 3
>and is also copyright 1977.


Actually no. NSdos was a simpler file system but actually robust and
very fast. It lacked editor/assember/debugger but did have a good set of
diags for ram, monitor and NS* BASIC. Which for it's time was pretty
good. Also it could boot in as little as 4k of ram and run basic in 24k.

Allison
Received on Wed Nov 01 2000 - 17:54:01 GMT