Re: Returning Apple User

[mojoehand <jgray@zianet.com>]

On Nov 2, 7:08 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There may be a skunkworks project underway to provide CF card support for
> SoftCard CP/M (not I - no time here).
>
> Microsoft CP/M was poorly designed in terms of expandibility.  The only way to
> add hardware device drivers without recompiling from source is by throwing
> away available TPA.  The Starcard/Applicard ran a beautifully engineered
> operating system that supports loadable 6502 device drivers backed by a
> well-documented public API.  You could add support for just about anything
> with little difficulty and it didn't cost one byte of CP/M program space.
>
> Maybe we can talk Henry Courbis into an Applicard knockoff?  They are really
> dirt simple and could be duplicated today with about 1/4 the parts count by
> means of a few PLDs.
>
> Steve

Both of those possibilities would be very nice.