Re: pascal system

["Guillaume Tello" <houten.van@wanadoo.fr>]

"David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com> a �crit dans le message de news: 
1149298236.436396.52390@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> Guillaume Tello <houten.van@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> > i wonder if it's possible to use the Pascal System on a Prodos disk (as 
>> > it
>> > is possible with dos.master for dos3.3 programs).
>> > I'm using a CFFA as a 2x32Mb drive.
>
> My Cirtech SCSI card has a unique way of allowing the use of ProDOS,
> DOS3.3, Pascal 1.3 and CP/M all on the one SCSI hard drive. It allows
> contigous regions of a partition to be excised from the ProDOS file
> system and the SCSI card is told to use just that region (by
> appropriate values for begining and end stored in screen holes). Then
> you install the O/S of your choice in that area. In the ProDOS area you
> have a small application that enables the sub partition and boots it.
>
> If anyone is interested I will dig out the manuals and disks and
> describe it more fully. Perhaps the CFFA firmware could be modified to
> support this scheme.

    That really sounds interesting! I also have a CMP/M card and i'd like to 
use everything from the CFFA, not from the floppies. Cause this is a new 
type of random access: sometimes it accesses the datas, sometimes not...

    Guillaume.