CP/M 1.3 memory requirement

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat Nov 4 11:29:58 2000

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
>> the BASIC interface rather than DCL. Yes, I mean the user enviornment
is
>> inside basic and the command line would be BASIC. I used LLL BASIC
>> to do it as its available as source and all. So what if CCP {or ZCPR}
>> is nominally 2k, I changed the load point in the BIOS and allowed 8k
for
>> that.
>>
>> Is the user interface different? Yes. Is it CP/M, still? Yes.
>
>Nifty, Allison!
> - don


Now you understand where I get the idea that CP/M can do anything or
at a minimum will not get in the way! When you consider the bdos is
3.5k and the bios can be smaller than 512bytes it's a pretty powerful
package in 4k. The rest is user programming.

Allison
Received on Sat Nov 04 2000 - 11:29:58 GMT