8" floppy project

[ben franchuk]

Tony Duell wrote:

> Cheating a bit, but how about FIGforth? I believe it is truely public 
> domain, and as it runs on the bare metal, it could be claimed to include 
> the OS. I assume there was/is a version of the 8088.

Yes, but try and find it today.  Fig forth is for the 8080 and 6502 with I/O
supplied by the user and ASM source. While I suspect you can get a
version for the 8088 I don't expect you can get the source for it.
Read keyboard, test keyboard ready, print to screen, read disk block,
write disk block I think is all that is needed.
Ben.
PS did the Jupiter Ace ever have floppy disk?