gray%isl@BRL.ARPA (12/07/83)
Some comments and questions on Kermit v. 3.5. I had two problems assembling cpmbase.m80--1)the assembler objected to having a label cmifi10 as well as a label cmifi1, which is consistent with my manual saying that the first 6 characters must be unique. Admittedly I have an old version of m80, but has this limitation been changed? 2) My assembler also objected to the "push a" instructions, but was happy when they were changed to "push af". How come? A more important comment to any who might be using Cromemco equipment: My system is essentially a Cromemco System 3 with the PerSci drives removed (junked with malice) and replaced by a Morrow 10MB hard disk and a Morrow floppy. The CP/M for this system is by MICAH, who does a lot of CP/M systems for cromemco hardware. While the system is generally good, it does NOT implement the standard IOBYTE as claimed and hence Kermit does not work. The problem is that BAT: is connected to a single port for both input & output, it does not input from RDR and output to LST as the CP/M manuals say it should. Everything else about the IOBYTE seems to be o.k. Has anyone encountered a system with a similar fault? Can it be fixed by a nonexpert in the innards of CPM?