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Re: Banked CP/M 3.1 on Apple //e?



Hi, y'all!

Roger Johnstone <roger@ihug.invalid> wrote in message news:<20031223184302433+1300@news.inv.ihug.co.nz>...
> The ALS CP/M Card has its own 64KB bank on the card, 61KB of which is 
> available for running CP/M programs. The main bank of the IIe memory 
> contains ProDOS and various bits, and the auxiliary bank is used for a 
> 60KB RAM disk. Since ProDOS remains in memory CP/M can use the ProDOS 
> drivers for the clock and block devices. Storage on block devices is via 
> virtual disks, so the device remains in ProDOS format. Even the 
> auxiliary bank ProDOS RAM disk remains intact, and can be used for 
> transferring files between CP/M and ProDOS.
> 
> More at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/apple2/cpm.html

    Gee, I now own two different ALS CP/M cards but, because I was
careless in shopping, I now know that neither one is the one Roger
describes.  Oh, well...

Willi