Specifications

The Operating System
6.3.1 CP/M
CP/M, Cont~ol Program tor Microprocessors, is the operating
system which you will be using it you have a single-user SUPER
STAR
system. This operating system has been commersially
available since 1975 and become a standard in the microcomputer
industry. It has been a wide variety ot disk management commands
and usetul 1/0 commands tor the user. Because CP/M has become so
popular there is an extencive library ot sottware, both business
and scientitic available to you, the user. CP/M 2.2 is the
standard operating system available with the SUPER STAR system,
CP/M 3.0 are available as an option tor the SUPER STAR system.
6.3.2 TurboDOS
TurboDOS, like CP/M, is a computer operating system. TurboDOS is
the system you will be using it you are going to operate the
SUPER STAR system in a mUlti-user environment. This operating
system is totally CP/M-compatable, thereby allowing you to load
and execute any CP/M programs which you have developed.
TurboDOS also provides increased disk storage capacity ot 25% to
35% over that ot the single user CP/M SUPER STAR system.
6.4 Single User System (CP/M 2.2)
The tollowing sections describe tunctions and the commandS that
execute those tunctions using the CP/M 2.2 operating system.
It you are currently using the CP/M 3.0 operating system skip to
Section 6.7 tor the TurboDOS operating system.
6.4.1 Copying Hard Disk to Diskettes
This section d~scribes the procedure tor copying data trom the
hard disk to ~-~loppy disk.
To COE~rthe hard disk to a diskette, proceed as tallows:
/
~~/ Power up the system it it is not already running. The
/operating system is assumed to be currently loaded on the tixed
// portion ot the hard diS'k drive.
2. Insert a tloppy disk you want to copy data into the tloppy
disk drive it you have not already done so.
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