The New APM Operating system

Preamble

This (new) section is intended to hold information on differences between the old and new operating systems plus other useful bits and pieces.

Loading the operating system

The new (multi-process) operating system may be loaded in a number of ways..

From a cold machine..

Type any character while the first three lines of bootstrap information are being printed and the bootstrap will suspend. You will then be prompted for a filestore (to which you respond with a space or <carriage-return> and then for a file. A space entered here will cause the standard system to boot. Any other response will be interpreted as a bootstrap file specification. The current version of the New operating system is bootstrapped from

X:SFP.MOB

From the old operating system..

Type NEW

From the new operating system..

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