Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!RAND.ORG!bridger%rcc
From: bridger%rcc@RAND.ORG (Bridger Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Xerox 16/8 BIOS
Message-ID: <8812211934.AA23227@newton>
Date: 21 Dec 88 19:34:29 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 23


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