
                 UNIFORM-PC Version 3.0 BETA Release
                       Software License Agreement
     
     
The software included on this diskette is Copyright, 1991 by Micro Solutions
of DeKalb, Illinois. It is licensed for your personal use only. This release
has been supplied without charge for informational and evaluation purposes
only and is provided without warranty, either express or implied.

Micro Solutions may from time to time revise this software and in so doing will
incur no obligation to furnish such revisions or any notice of such revisions
to you. Micro Solutions may charge a fee to provide such revisions.

IN NO EVENT WILL MICRO SOLUTIONS, INC. BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY
DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR OTHER
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE.


Thank you for your continued interest in Uniform-PC. Please address your
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               Technical Support Department
               Micro Solutions, Inc.
               132 West Lincoln Highway
               DeKalb, IL 60115
               




                          Release 3.0 Technical Notes

               
This release of Uniform is designed to achieve maximum 
compatibility by controlling all disk operations through the BIOS 
Interrupt 13h functions. These are software services provided by 
the BIOS ROM in IBM and compatible computers. Interrupt 13h 
support is extended with Micro Solutions CompatiCard and Backpack 
device drivers. Use of Interrupt 13h allows Uniform greater 
independence from differences in system hardware and permits 
support of all Micro Solutions disk controllers, including 
CompatiCard IV and Backpack.

Uniform's reliance on Interrupt 13 has some consequences that
distinguish it from earlier versions:

Single-density disk diskette formats are not supported unless a
Micro Solutions CompatiCard I, Compaticard IV or Backpack Drive
is installed. In each case the device driver software must also
be properly installed since it is the device driver that provides
Interrupt 13h functions. If a format is not supported by the 
installed hardware and device driver (where required) that format
will not appear on the Uniform-PC menus.

Certain CP/M formats used non-standard byte values to indicate
the side of the disk in format addresses. The BIOS Interrupt 13h
routines of IBM and compatible machines cannot read these non-
standard side bytes. Therefore a Micro Solutions CompatiCard I,
II, IV or Backpack Drive is required to access such diskettes.

CP/M formats with non-standard side bytes include the following:

Name                           Sides       TPI
                               Density     or Size

A.B. Dick Magna III            DSDD        48
Actrix                         DSDD        48
Altos Mode 0                   DSDD        8"
Chug Master 98 (data)          DSDD        48
Electroglas                    DSDD        3"
Heurikon MLZ-90                DSDD        8"
Jade                           DSDD        8"
Kaypro 2X/4/10*                DSDD        48
Kaypro Pro-8 ROM               DSDD        96
Master Max                     DSDD        8"
Micro Source M6000p            DSDD        48
Molecular Series 9             DSDD        48
Morrow 8 (512)                 SSDD        8"
Mountain Controls              DSDD        8"
Sharp MZ-80b (512)             DSDD        48
Syntech Data                   DSDD        48
Tarbell                        DSDD        8"
Vector 4                       DSDD        96
Xerox                          DSDD        48
Xerox 16/8 EM-II               DSDD        48
Xerox 16/8 EM-II (512)         DSDD        48
Xor 5                          DSDD        48
Xor 5                          DSDD        48
Xor System                     DSDD        8"
Zorba                          DSDD        48
Zorba                          DSDD        96

*Note: The Kaypro 2 SSDD 48 format is supported. All Kaypro
2X/4/10 machines support the single-sided Kaypro 2 format.

