The following installation instructions were written by Doug Gilbert at XEROX Palo Alto Research Center. The data seems to be quite complete. Enjoy! Rick Conn ZCPR2 INSTALLATION ON THE XEROX 820-II ====================================== This file documents some of the ZCPR2 installation parameter's I used for the XEROX 820-II computer. The initial main consideration was where to find unused memory for buffers. There appears to be available memory above the CBIOS and I've used this area without any problems so far. This memory is as follows: 0EE80H TO 0EF7FH: 256 BYTES FREE 0EFC0H TO 0EFFFH: 64 BYTES FREE My assignment of this free RAM area for ZCPR2 was as noted below: EXTERNAL STACK AREA FOR ZCPR2 ----------------------------- 0EFCFH TO 0EFFFH (48 BYTES) EXTERNAL SEARCH PATH BUFFER --------------------------- 0EFC0H TO 0EFCEH (14 BYTES) NAMED DIRECTORY BUFFER ---------------------- 0EF00H TO 0EF7FH (128 BYTES) MULTIPLE COMMAND BUFFER ----------------------- 0EE80H TO 0EEFFH (128 BYTES) Thus far, I've encountered no problems with these assignments. Please let me know if any areas above are used for other purposes in the 820-II system. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is some additional information on the Xerox 820-II implementation. The memory map of the system is: F000-FFFF MONITOR, copied from ROM on boot EA00-EFFF CBIOS DC06-E9FF BDOS D400-DC05 CCP The buffer area I use is in upper CBIOS area. The ZCPR22.ASM file with ZCPRHDR.LIB are assembled and installed as follows: 1. SYSGEN the 'standard CP/M 22' operating system 2. SAVE 34 CPMIMAGE.COM 3. DDT CPMIMAGE.COM 4. IZCPR22.HEX 5. R3580 (offset is 3580 for 980 CCP) In my implementation, the CBIOS cold boot routine is modified with the file MOD820II.ASM. 6. IMOD820II.HEX 7. R3580 8. SAVE 34 ZPRIMAGE.COM 9. SYSGEN new operationg system 10. Include file "STAR.COM" with command line: RAMINIT;DIR 11. Include file "RAMINIT.COM" on operating system disk The files RAMINIT.ASM, RAMINIT.COM, MOD820II.ASM, and MOD820II.HEX are provided in the LBR File.