Re: Creating DOS 3.2 Systems Masters where there were none

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"David Wilson" <david@uow.edu.au> wrote in message 
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> "schmidtd@my-deja.com" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> writes:
>>Some constraints they would have to have dealt with would be how
>>to specify what format you wanted to INIT in (13 or 16?), and
>>of course they would never have permitted the card to be slot
>>dependent.  They'd need some RTWS and File Manager changes, too.
>>It's probably a lot to stuff into the existing memory map.
>
> The INIT has nothing to do with - that is done by the code in DOS in RAM.
> If you have DOS 3.3 loaded you get a 16 sector disk.
> If you have DOS 3.2 loaded you get a 13 sector disk.
>
> You should leave the P6A state machine PROM in the card
> and swap between the P5 and P5A according to which DOS you wish to boot.
> [I may have the 5 and 6 reversed].
> -- 
> David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia

You have them correct, David. Good Job.  :o)

Bill Garber