25 Aug
2012
25 Aug
'12
6:20 a.m.
On 08/24/2012 06:53 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 08/24/2012 05:41 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
That is usually true and usually done that way but there is no specific
requirement
to do that. Only that all the examples do that.
The reason they did it that way was twofold big Eproms were scarce and
expensive
when they first became available in the early days and you need a OS to
read
a file system.
Allison
In CP/M, isn't the BIOS just a file on disk
anyway?
It (usually) resides on disk, but it is not a file. It is combined
with the BDOS and CCP during system generation to form the CP/M image
which is written to the system track(s).