Re: Apple //e HardDrive

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <390E37EC.B34C0F72@inetnebr.com>,
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),
 
CP/M 2.2 could handle only 8 MB drives.  32 MB drive support was
added in CP/M 3.0 AKA CP/M+
 
> but since CP/M isn't a hierarchical filing system, even 10 megs could
> be a nightmare to use.
 
The CP/M file system have user areas though, which are numbered.  The
ZCPR CCP replacement included the feature of naming these from the
command line -- in effect this created subdirectories one level deep.
 
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