any "preferred" disk format for CP/M on 8-inch double-density floppy?

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Eric Smith wrote: Well, my personal preference is 8 x 1024, or 15 x 512 (which makes life a little simpler for interchange with systems that require extra work to switch out of 512 byte sectors). But, in 1979?, I asked Gary Kildall what he would recommend as a standard format for 5.25". He replied, "The standard format for CP/M is 8" SSSD." I tried, with NO success to convince him that because DS, DD, and 5.25" WERE going to happen, that specifying secondary standards (DS, DD, 5.25" SSSD, 5.25" DS, 5.25" DD, 5.25" DSDD) would go a long ways towards preventing a situation of thousands of mutually incompatible formats. He politely made it very clear that he had NO interest in creating secondary standards. "The standard format for CP/M is 8" SSSD." -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com