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On 29 May 2010 at 17:58, Peter Slegg wrote:

> I think this might be asking a bit much but it would be nice
> to be able to boot from a CD.
> 
> I guess there is a lot more involved in doing that.
> 
The short answer is yes :-).  I think that you would need to:
a) modify TOS to read CDs and recognise bootable CDs
b) write a hard disk & ISO9660 driver that could be distributed on CDs
b) modify the CD writing software to put (b) on a CD when creating it.

A fair bit of work.

Roger Burrows