Toinet wrote:
I guess Apple never released a CP/M FST for two (different) reasons: - Microsoft
Microsoft has no proprietary stake in CP/M. At the time, it was owned by Digital Research (later Caldera).
- the AppleDisk5.25 deals with blocks of 512 bytes only (even for DOS 3.3) and CP/M with 1KB blocks at a minimum.
??? Why is this a problem? It's just the way it is. CP/M BIOS implementations used deblocking to translate between physical sectors and CP/M records (128 byte blocks).