From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houxg!houxi!npois!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Corvus 8M-byte limit Article-I.D.: ucb.1098 Posted: Sun May 16 23:22:36 1982 Received: Tue May 18 00:44:51 1982 >From Hess.Unicorn@Mit-Multics Sun May 16 23:22:22 1982 Yeah, it's a Corvus BIOS bug. If you have a listing and code, you can go and fix it with some (read "lots of") hair on your part. I do not know of anybody who has, but do know of someone who has found it and gone around the problem the long (but interesting) way! CPU Computer Corp. here in Boston (a.k.a. ComputerCity owners) have written a product called CPUNet which uses the full storage capacity of the drives, and uses Apple ]['s with Softcards to run CP/M look-alike on it. They have been running DBase II, Word*, SuperCalc, and (!) The FinalWord on it successfully for a couple weeks now. There's still some work to go on turning it into a real product, but the majority of the technical work is all done and, like a charm, it works. If you were at the Applefest this past weekend, you could have seen it in action. The guy at CPU who implemented the stuff is also a Mark of the Unicorn person, Craig Finseth. You can get in touch with someone to talk about purchasing the thing if you want to call CPU, (617)242-3350. It may take a little work to get the right person there if you want to ask questions. It's guaranteed to be less expensive to wait for Corvus, but it's almost certain to be more expensive to do it yourself rather than purchase something already done. Cheers, Brian