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From: treesh@vangogh.helios.nd.edu
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Subject: Re: DesTerm 2.00
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Date: 2 Jan 91 17:50:52 GMT
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I can understand that.  As a programmer myself, I was very scard of the lt
kernal hard drive before I got my hands on one.  It would seem that any
software with any protection at all, or even so much as an auto-loader
feature would crass the system with the kernal in place.

I proabaly would have gone with a CMD hard drive if not for a friend of mine
who was so desprate to sell his kernal that he gave me a deal I could not 
turn down.  After playing with it, using it, and getting to know it, I
would NEVER trade it for a CMD hard disk.  The Lt Kernal Dos is the
sweetest opperating system for a programmer!  Adding dos commands like
copy, merge, and a hole slew of programming utilties like renumber, and
things like that make this drive a very nice (But way too expensive)
addition the the system.  It even works in CPM on my 128!
 
One of the non-published features about the hardware of the SCSI 
interface is that with a high level of advanced programming 
knoledge, one could easyly add new commands to 64 or 128 basic.  Since
the basic and kernal rom are pretty much duplicated in the dos image
file of the drive, additions (such as IEEE support) are not impossible.

I would think that the changes to the rs232 rom drivers that des term
makes could easly be changed as bytes on the hard disk sector, and
could 'load from disk' the necessary rom configuration needed.  Maybe??
 
ctfm