30 Oct
2000
30 Oct
'00
10:18 a.m.
It looks like I'll have to pick up another 4k SRAM board
before I even begin to try and boot CP/M then, as my S-100 system
only has 12k (1-8k, 1-4k). It had 40k in it at one point but the
other boards are long gone. I have to make a minor solder repair to
the powerboard for the floppy still, but after that I'll be trying to
boot CP/M 1.30 from Lifeboat Associates from a North Star disk
system. Now that my move is almost here, I can start thinking about
working on this machine again.
Jeff
The standard distribution sized for memory as:
1.3 16k
1.4 16k
2.0 20k
2.2 20k
This was the expected memeory for the startup of a distribution disk
as it was "sysgened" for that size. It left enough space in all cases
to run sysgen(or movcpm) and leave an images in the available TPA.
The actual memory needed, using the standard SSSD 8" distibution of
2.0/2.2 was 2k for the CCP (when loaded), 3584 byts for the BDOS
and about 1k to 1500bytes for the BIOS. The 1.3 version was only
slightly smaller.
Allison
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