30 May
2000
30 May
'00
4:15 p.m.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
Yes! So why's Sellam Ismail wanting to mix OS and
data elements? He's
unhappy with the notion of putting only what you need on a diskette which
holds what you want to archive. What good does CP/M OS material do him if
he's using OS-8?
I'm not directing this message to Dick, because the general assumption is
that he won't understand no matter how I explain it and no matter what
language I use (perhaps I should learn Martian?)
At any rate, this is more directed towards anyone who has gotten confused
as a result of Dick's continued brain farting.
A floppy diskette is a stream of bytes. What those bytes represent
couldn't concern me less. The purpose of this exercise is to create a
common, documented format by which that byte stream can be archived and
the way those byte streams are stored on the diskette can be described,
thereby allowing a copy to be reconstructed in the future on an actual
diskette or allowing the image to be fed into an emulator.
Simple, yes? Of course. Ignore Dick and we're golden.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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