On Jul 2, 2016, at 1:37 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>> Genius.
> Clever? yes. Genius? no, or you would have to count too many of us.
>
>> But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com file to
>> have a header.
>> http://peetm.com/blog/?p=
> On 03 Jul 2016, at 01:00 , Eric Smith wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Eric Christopherson
> wrote:
>> Genius. But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com file to
>> have a header.
>> http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
>
> Multiple people independently invented the zero-b
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Eric Christopherson
wrote:
> Genius. But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com file to
> have a header.
> http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
Multiple people independently invented the zero-byte CP/M program,
which is obviously the shortest possible usef
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
[Howard Fullmer]
https://books.google.cz/books?id=WDAEMBAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=Howard+Fullmer+parasitic+engineering&source=bl&ots=vR97Abpe-n&sig=PkbTWlbiUCJDMt4iyl80Mu7Tds0&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Howard%20Fullmer%20parasitic%20engineering&f=f
On 2 July 2016 at 20:37, Fred Cisin wrote:
>Initials of Mark Zbikowski. Who was he? As little is known about him as
> is about Howard Fullmer ("Parasitic Engineering" and chief engineer for
> Morrow)
Fascinating stuff as ever, Fred. Thanks.
BTW...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbiko
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Of course, this only works when the program doesn't clobber its own
initialization code (to reclaim memory), which a lot of programs did in
those memory-limited days.
OR, as part of the program's initialization code (starting at 100h) it
clears the areas of
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
Genius.
Clever? yes. Genius? no, or you would have to count too many of us.
But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com file to
have a header.
http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
NO.
A .COM file is a pure image of memory, starting at lo
On 07/02/2016 10:29 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Genius. But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com
> file to have a header.
>
> http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
Of course, this only works when the program doesn't clobber its own
initialization code (to reclaim memory), which a lo
Genius. But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com file to
have a header.
http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
