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From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
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Subject: Re: Strange Kaypro problems
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Date: 22 Nov 90 20:05:03 GMT
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floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
>
>The Kaypro monitor ROM has no provision for timeout on the disks.
>Micro C's ROM and TurboROM both do.

You are right - at least mostly.  On the K10 with 81-302 ROM the drive light
and motor does timeout.  Whether this is in ROM or O/S I don't know.
On the KP-2X (81-292), only the drive motor times out.  The light remains on.
>
>I installed a TurboROM on a K-10, and once had a copy of the first
>ROM that Micro C sold.  I don't recall that the BIOS needed to be 
>changed with either of them.  Mind you I could be wrong on that,
>but if I remember right all the code that handles disk blocking and
>so on is in the ROM, all the BIOS does is call the ROM.  On most
>earlier CP/M systems that code was actually in the BIOS itself.
>

Rereading the Micro C manual strongly suggests that you are right.  I don't
now have access to the T'ROM manual, but it likely is the same.  I stand
corrected (and smarter!).
                                                - don

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