From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: BIOS enhancements Article-I.D.: ucb.1111 Posted: Tue May 18 23:34:45 1982 Received: Thu May 20 02:18:27 1982 >From bridger@Rand-Unix Tue May 18 23:34:32 1982 1. In an interrupt-driven keyboard system, use of a type-ahead console buffer can conflict with the cp/m's CONSOLE STATUS function #1. Typing ahead activates the status condition, and a number of programs use a positive status to abort. But if the status is changed to indicate to cpm that no key has been typed it is then unavailable for programs that require status before calling CONIN to get the typed character. 2. Discussions here have occasionally alluded to improving cpm's error recovery capabilities. It would be desirable to be able to reset the disk system within a running program, for example, if you've changed disks and forgotten to warm boot before trying to write. Any suggestions? bridger @ RAND-UNIX