Re: System 601 Q

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) writes:
>In a previous article, scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) says:
>>Can Apple Pascal be put on an entire 3.5" drive or made to use say 5megs of 
>>a 32meg ProDOS partition?

>Well, here I go shooting my mouth off with less than absolute certainty, but, 
>Apple Pascal will fit on one 3.5" drive with a good bit of space left over.

True - it is distributed on 4-5 5.25" disks and duplicated on 1 3.5" disk.

>To put it (Apple Pascal) on a harddrive you will need a dedicated partition.
>A "Prodos" partition won't work since Apple Pascal uses a unique operating
>system, i.e. not ProDos.  Unless my memory is failing me, the original Sider
>harddrives came with utility software to allow mapping one partition as
>a Pascal device.  I suspect there are other utilities out there to do the
>same.

Cirtech's SCSI card allows you to assign a chunk of your ProDOS volume to
Pascal (16MB max for Pascal). I use this and it works well (similarly for
DOS 3.3 and CP/M).

If you have an Apple or RAMFast SCSI card you could, if you were prepared
to boot Pascal 1.3 from a 3.5" floppy make the 2nd partition on your hard
disk a Pascal partition (Pascal 1.3 can only see the first two partitions
on a SCSI card [which must be in slot 4, 5 or 6]). Again, Pascal can only
use up to 16MB (it must use 16 bit signed block numbers).
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