On 8/24/12 4:58 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Or the
Epson Geneve PX-8! A dozen of them will fit in a Kaypro case.
On Fri, 24 Aug
2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Intersting little machine. I never much liked the
fact that the directory
of the microcassette was cahced in RAM and if you forgot to unmount the
tape before ejecting it yyou could end up losing data on that tape _and
on the next oen you loaded_.
Seems familiar with some other systems.
CP/M needed ^C when changing disks. So did MS-DOS! (sometimes)
I never could find ANYWHERE in any Microsoft manuals any mention of
pressing ^C when changing disks.
Yes, it did sometimes use the cached DIRectory instead of the newly
inserted disk!
I do seem to recall that one of my MS-DOS v5.0 manuals (Not an
MS-branded manual - Dell maybe?) recommended running "exit" a couple of
times before removing a floppy disk.
I could be wrong about the source, but I'm pretty sure of the DOS
version.
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