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The video covers how CP/Ms big problem was that the disk formats weren't the same between machines, doubly true for this Sony which used new 3.5" disks. So all
by kalleboo 10d ago
The video covers how CP/Ms big problem was that the disk formats weren't the same between machines, doubly true for this Sony which used new 3.5" disks. So all the existing CP/M software had to be specifically re-released for this machine, which caused a chicken and egg problem (who is going to release software for a machine nobody is buying because there is no software for it)
The MS-DOS world solved the problem by everyone just cloning the IBM hardware down to the disk format.
- rbanffy 10d agoThis is, indeed, an issue. IIRC, the only interchangeable disk format with CP/M was with 8 inch media. Unless the disks had copy protection, you could copy them over a serial link. I did that a lot between my Apple II and other CP/M machines.