From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: CP/M Blocking and Deblocking
Article-I.D.: ucb.1438
Posted: Mon Jun 28 04:14:01 1982
Received: Tue Jun 29 08:05:40 1982

>From POURNE@Mit-Mc Mon Jun 28 04:13:50 1982
Godbout/Compupro will shortly be supplying a new BIOS with their
equipment.  This was written by Tony Pietsch, and features
provisions for M (warp) drive, m (mini-floppy), as well as
driving the Godbout controller faster than anything we've seen
yet.  Alas they are removing Tony's builtin provision for the N
Drive (semi-disk) on the , sigh, reasonable grounds that they're
not responsible for providing software to support another
company's competing products.
	If you have an older Compupro you should  think about
getting the new BIOS, which ought to be available in perhaps a
month.  One nice feature: if you try to access a drive with no
disk in it, it says "Load the Drive, Stupid" instead of BDOS
error...
This impressed a couple of Compupro engineers no end last night
when they were over for a couple of hours and I demonstrated the
BIOS.  As always you get the source code.

	(NOTE: I have no commercial interest in this at all; but
I have seen a number of people go slightly mad because they
don't have the BIOS source, or can't do certain things, or get
BDOS errors when they shouldn't, and I conclude that one reason
I like my computer so much is that I seem to have awfully good
software; better than I knew until I saw what others put up
with...)
JEP