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`\clearpage`{=latex} |
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## Conventions Used |
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#### Size Suffixes |
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Within the documentation and in RomWBW in general, the use of size |
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suffixes KB, MB, GB, and TB refer to the binary variant as shown |
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below. The modern suffixes (KiB, MiB, etc.) are not used here because |
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they were not prevalent during the time that the RomWBW OSes were |
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used. This keeps all of RomWBW and associated applications consistent. |
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| Suffix | Value | Meaning | |
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|------------|-----------|----------------------------------------| |
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| KB | 1024 | 1,024 bytes | |
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| MB | 1024^2^ | 1,048,576 bytes | |
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| GB | 1024^3^ | 1,073,741,824 bytes | |
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| TB | 1024^4^ | 1,099,511,627,776 bytes | |
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#### Links and URLs |
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Many of the references in the documentation to Internet addresses (URLs) |
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do not provide the address in the text. However, these links are |
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embedded and "clickable" within the documents. Your PDF viewer should |
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highlight these links in some manner (typically an alternate color |
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or an underline). |
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# Description |
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## Primary Features |
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@ -69,6 +44,7 @@ Supported hardware features of RomWBW include: |
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* Video drivers including TMS9918, SY6545, MOS8563, HD6445 |
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* Keyboard (PS/2) drivers via VT8242 or PPI interfaces |
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* Real time clock drivers including DS1302, BQ4845 |
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* Support for CP/NET networking using Wiznet, MT011 or Serial |
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* Built-in VT-100 terminal emulation support |
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A dynamic disk drive letter assignment mechanism allows mapping |
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@ -77,7 +53,7 @@ Additionally, mass storage devices (IDE Disk, CF Card, SD Card, etc.) |
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support the use of multiple slices (up to 256 per device). Each slice |
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contains a complete CP/M filesystem and can be mapped independently to |
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any drive letter. This overcomes the inherent size limitations in legacy |
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OSes and allows up to 2GB of accessible storage on a single device, |
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OSes and allows up to 2GB of addressable storage on a single device, |
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with up to 128MB accessible at any one time. |
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## Included Software |
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@ -89,15 +65,15 @@ slices, each with a full operating system implementation. If you use |
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this disk image, you can easily pick whichever operating system you |
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want to boot without changing media. |
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Some of the included software |
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Some of the included software: |
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* Operating Systems (CP/M 2.2, ZSDOS, NZ-COM, CP/M 3, ZPM3, Z3PLUS, QPM ) |
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* Additional operating systems, p-System, FreeRTOS, and FUZIX. |
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* Support for other operating systems, p-System, FreeRTOS, and FUZIX. |
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* Programming Tools (Z80ASM, Turbo Pascal, Forth, Cowgol) |
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* C Compilers including Aztec, and HI-TECK |
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* C Compiler's including Aztec-C, and HI-TECH C |
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* Microsoft Basic Compiler, and Microsoft Fortran |
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* Some games such as Colossal Cave, Zork, etc |
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* Wordstar |
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* Wordstar Word processing software |
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Some of the provided software can be launched directly from the |
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ROM firmware itself: |
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be built using Linux or MacOS after confirming a few standard tools |
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have been installed. |
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## Installation & Operation |
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In general, installation of RomWBW on your platform is very simple. You |
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just need to program your ROM with the correct ROM image from the RomWBW |
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distribution. Subsequently, you can write disk images on your disk |
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drives (IDE disk, CF Card, SD Card, etc.) which then provides even more |
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functionality. |
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Complete instructions for installation and operation of RomWBW are found |
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in the $doc_user$. It is also a good idea to review the [Release |
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Notes](https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md) |
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for helpful release-specific information. |
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## Documentation |
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There are several documents that form the core of the RomWBW documentation: |
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Wayne Warthen
1 year ago
GitHub