[net.micro.cpm] CP/M 3.0 query

ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA (Alan Bomberger) (11/12/85)

Well, only n years late I took the plunge and revised my 2.2 BIOS for my aging 
Northstar Horizon to CP/M 3.  Next weekend I will look into implementing a 
banked version, though from what I hear my Disk Cache BIOS performs better than
the CP/M 3 LRU buffer.  QUERY?  Console Paging Mode is nice but... How do you 
stop it from putting out the Dreaded Control X after each pause.  And why is it
putting out a Control X anyway.  Control X puts a WYSE terminal to sleep (why 
they did that is a good question as well)

In case you ask why CP/M 3...I am converting my Write-Hand-Man product to CP/M 
3.0 because of popular demand.  I may even try TurboDos if I could get it 
configured for a Northstar Horizon.

michaelk@azure.UUCP (Mike Kersenbrock) (11/14/85)

In article <3118@brl-tgr.ARPA> ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA (Alan Bomberger) writes:
>Well, only n years late I took the plunge and revised my 2.2 BIOS for my aging 
>Northstar Horizon to CP/M 3.  Next weekend I will look into implementing a 
>banked version, though from what I hear my Disk Cache BIOS performs better than
>the CP/M 3 LRU buffer.  QUERY?  Console Paging Mode is nice but... How do you 
>stop it from putting out the Dreaded Control X after each pause.  And why is it
>putting out a Control X anyway.  Control X puts a WYSE terminal to sleep (why 
>they did that is a good question as well)
>
>In case you ask why CP/M 3...I am converting my Write-Hand-Man product to CP/M 
>3.0 because of popular demand.  I may even try TurboDos if I could get it 
>configured for a Northstar Horizon.

I don't know about the ^X, but when I implemented CP/M 3.0 "n years ago",
I just gave the O.S. a couple blocks, and cached the disks myself.  I'm
currently using 256K in a banked configuration (top 16K fixed, and 5 48K
banks) "soon" to be 1MB w/21 banks w/RAMDISK as well.  Actually I like
3.0 a lot better than 2.2.  At very least my files have timestamps, and
I've implemented a "make" facility which I like quite a lot.


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Mike Kersenbrock
Tektronix Software Development Products
Aloha, Oregon

dbmk1@stc.UUCP (11/15/85)

In article <3118@brl-tgr.ARPA> ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA writes:
>Well, only n years late I took the plunge and revised my 2.2 BIOS for my aging 
>Northstar Horizon to CP/M 3.  Next weekend I will look into implementing a 
>banked version, though from what I hear my Disk Cache BIOS performs better than
>the CP/M 3 LRU buffer.

OK daft question time - is the update only for specific machines or is someone
willing to post/mail a CP/M 3 BIOS skeleton that I can massage for my machine.


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  Derek

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