Edward and Sheel will present the key ideas we need to understand from Chapter 3: The CP/M-Based Computer and Chapter 4: What the Operating System Provides. After that we will choose the pair to present the next two chapters in class on Tuesday, October 17th.

Read Chapter 5: Organization Of CP/M and Chapter 6: Interfacing With CP/M and take notes in a file named UsingCPM.md in your git repo.

Please have this assignment completed by 11:59 pm on Saturday. I'll be in NYC for the weekend, but I will try to evaluate your work on Sunday morning when I wake up (no promises).

We will begin with Nate's summary of Chapter 2: Software Components Of the Computer System, which we will then discuss, focusing on the core feature of an operating system, providing an API for application programs that abstracts hardware - including providing a file system, memory management, and device drivers.

We'll also talk briefly about a few of the things we will not be investigating this year. If time permitted, it would have been really cool to run the serial I/O echo routine, which provides about a simple an introduction at possible to device drivers. Since we agreed that we need to move with deliberate speed toward C programming, we will have to skip this and other detours from our destination path this year.

Read Chapter 3: The CP/M-Based Computer and Chapter 4: What the Operating System Provides and take notes in a file named AboutCPM.md in your git repo.