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From: trier@cwlim.INS.CWRU.Edu (Stephen C. Trier)
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Subject: Re: Turbo-C 2.0 absread() / abswrite()
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Date: 8 Dec 90 18:27:07 GMT
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BIOS options exist to read 256-byte sectors.  When I initially got a C
compiler for a PC, one of my first projects was to try to read an OS-9
disk.  I was never able to get the transfer to work right.  (On the
other hand, I hadn't got used to PC programming yet back then!)

So the answer is "yes, it's possible, at least in theory."

There was a package from OwlWare a while ago that ran on MS-DOS and read
and wrote Disk BASIC and OS-9 floppies.

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Stephen Trier                              Case Western Reserve University
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