24 Aug
2012
24 Aug
'12
2:41 a.m.
On 23 August 2012 22:15, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Hey, John, welcome! Have you just joined or been here lurking all along?
In CP/M, isn't the BIOS just a file on disk anyway?
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Personally,
I'm partial to the Amstrad PCW line.While it was marketed
as a dedicated word processor in much of the world, it had gobs of RAM
(at least 256KB), high-resolution monochrome graphics (720x256) and
shipped with a very nice CP/M Plus implementation which included a
better-than-average BASIC as well as DRI LOGO and the GSX graphics
libraries. The non-standard 3 inch floppies are a bit of a drag, but
it was fairly easy to add 3.5 inch drives and even hard drives were
available.
Second-generation PCWs corrected that; they had 3.5" drives. And later
iterations of the BIOS supported loadable device drivers, with all sorts of
possibilities for mischief.