CP/M 2 - what's its legal status? (Vector box cards)

[Allison]

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>Subject: CP/M 2 - what's its legal status? (Vector box cards)
>   From: M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net>
>   Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:21:28 -0500
>     To: "'cctalk at classiccmp.org'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>Well, from my limited knowledge of Vector systems, AFAIK the
>multi-user systems did actually use a standard 48K CP/M and
>not MP/M; each terminal loaded it into its own memory card
>and the supervisor ROM looked after time-slicing among the cards.

A lot of the multiuser S100 systems used CPU/memory/IO per user 
running CP/M and a additional CPU/mem/IO/disks running MPM as 
server to provide inter-cpu communication, file services and 
spooled printing.  Some ran Multiple IO subsystems and one cpu
to time slice task swap. 

>But the question still remains whether the FDD is soft or hard
>sectored; it does indeed look like a Tandon and not the usual
>Micropolis and if the model number can't be relied on, how
>could one tell (other than by trial & error)?
>
>mike

This is the crush question.  Board names/model numbers may help.
Then those specifically familar with Vector can say whats what.

Allison