Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LIN@mit-ml From: LIN%mit-ml@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: none Message-ID: <12944@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 21:17:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12944 Posted: Mon Oct 24 21:17:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Oct-83 21:39:51 EDT Lines: 15 From: Herb Lin From: jlapsley%D.CC at berkeley The BIOS for the Compupro 8/16 system you described sounds like some- thing which I "hear" (by a friend) Gifford & Gifford computers in San Leandro has. Compupro's standard 816 bios will differentiate between 8080 and 8086 software, and allows a larger TPA because all the disk calls are handled under th 8088. However, the standard Godbout BIOS does not include typeahead, interrupt driven I/O, or disk cache-ing. If you are talking about the G&G MP/M 8-16, it does include disk cache-ing, but it's not user-controllable - it allocates some part of itself for a disk buffer.