20 Sep
2015
20 Sep
'15
1:46 p.m.
On 9/20/2015 2:19 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
There were several reasons why there was never a STANDARD 5.25" CP/M
format. I once had the opportunity to ask Gary Kildall what the
standard would be for 5.25". He replied, "8 inch single sided single
density". I repeated, "Yes, but waht about 5.25"? He repeated, "8
inch
single sided single density". I understood, but was not much enlightened.
I was just digging in to old CP/M a bit and it was/is tied mostly
to the IBM 8" standard floppy and the floppy interface used at the
time. Even that gave a very small amount memory per track.
Ben.