Re: Apple //e HardDrive

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

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.
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