30 May
2000
30 May
'00
6:51 p.m.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, allisonp wrote:
Done! the OS was never mixed with data on CPM disks
until CPM3 and
CPM86.
the system booted off OS specific tracks and DATA was never stored there
and SYSTEM was never stored on DATA tracks. This applies to CP/M
{1.3, 1.4, 2.0, 2.2} explicitly and many others as well.
Yes, same with the Apple ][ pretty much, although you could free up some
sectors on track 2 for data use if desired on some versions of DOS.
Anyway, I don't know what the issue is about. The fact is we aren't
archiving specific sections of the diskette but rather the entire diskette
as a whole. Richard, as usual, invented a complexity in order to have
something to argue around.
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