Re: Apple //e HardDrive

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <390f08c8@ecn.ab.ca>,  <tturner@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>Roy and/or Janet Miller (millers@inetnebr.com) wrote:
 
> Roy and/or Janet Miller (millers@inetnebr.com) wrote:
> : Paul Schlyter wrote:
> : > Such a HD is too big for CP/M 2.2 -- it could hande disks only up to 8 MB.
> 
> : Kaypro sold a CP/M computer with a 10 meg hard drive. I think (I'll
> : check in the CP/M Bible if you like) that 32 meg is the largest drive
> : CP/M can have (which is where MS-DOS got it's limit from), but since
> : CP/M isn't a hierarchical filing system, even 10 megs could be a
> : nightmare to use.
> <snip>
> 
> --> As I recall - CP/M could be set-up for multiple users.
>     (ie: USER01, USER02, USER03, etc.) I used this capability
>     to `separate' groups of files on my old CP/M diskettes.
>     It was awkward, as one had to switch between `users' to
>     see a different group of files - but it did work.
 
If you replaced the CCP with ZCPR, you could name these user areas.
In effect this created subdirectories one level deep.
 
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