bridger%rcc@RAND.ORG (Bridger Mitchell) (12/22/88)
Several Xerox 16/8 users have asked me if DosDisk can be configured to run on that machine. I don't know, and I'm told the machine is being remaindered at attractive prices. Can someone with access to the bios help with these questions: Can the BIOS's logical and physical disk parameters can be externally set, or overlaid, to permit foreign format disks to be used? Can we obtain a complete copy of the ram and rom portions of the BIOS? Would someone with advanced assembly language experience wish to volunteer to write the DosDisk overlay for the 16/8? ---- DosDisk (from Plu*Perfect Systems) is a resident system extension for CP/M 2.2 and CP/M Plus that allows a 360K MS-DOS format disk to be DIRECTLY used in a DSDD drive. Essentially all CP/M programs can read/write the dos disk, transparently. Files in subdirectories can be accessed, too, and on DateStamper computers the MS-DOS datestamps maintained. --bridger
ted@aaifs.uucp (Ted Nolan) (01/05/89)
Any information anyone has on the 8/16 would be welcome. I've got one, but no sofware for the silly thing. I didn't follow the install instructions for CPM, I looked at the hard disk BEFORE reiniting it, and there was a lot of stuff there for factory use, including a demo that played music, so I know there's sound somewhere, but I can't find it in the Xerox manuals. I know there's direct screen access too, I can get it from the monitor level, but not from CPM, so I can't make VDO work. As I say, any info or software would be nice! Ted Nolan ted@braggvax.arpa ted@spam.istc.sri.com