CP/M 1.3 memory requirement

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Nov 4 15:00:52 2000

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, ajp166 wrote:

> 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
 
You are preaching to the choir, Allison. :)

                                                 - don
 
Received on Sat Nov 04 2000 - 15:00:52 GMT