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Kroc Camen on Nostr: Surely the sysgen controls that? The machine’s ROM runs sector 0 which should also ...

Surely the sysgen controls that? The machine’s ROM runs sector 0 which should also be a vendor-specific bootstrap to load the pre-generated system binary that combines the generic CPM BDOS with the vendor-supplied BIOS. Since sysgen assembles a new CPM on-demand, control over which floppy is “boot” would rest somewhere there