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[ben]

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.