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CP/M hardly ran on anything but S-100 bus machines in the beginning.

It was common in those days to compile the BIOS directly into your copy of CP/M, rather than running it from ROM. CP/M had memory areas set aside that you could patch. The ROM was only expected to contain a boot loader that would copy the OS image into memory and jump to it.




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