More boot sector README updates

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### PC-DOS 1.10 Boot Sector
The boot sector of the PC-DOS 1.11 disk image contains the following bytes:
The boot sector of the PC-DOS 1.10 disk image contains the following bytes:
00000000 eb 27 90 08 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.'..............|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ a 320Kb diskette is allocated a larger root directory (7 sectors instead of 4),
out to sector #3 and head #1. The total number of sectors to read (0x14) remains the same as PC-DOS 1.00, but that
value is now stored at offset 0x0005 (0x7C05) instead of 0x0002 (0x7C02).
Interestingly, the [COMPAQ MS-DOS 1.11 Boot Sector](/disks/pcx86/dos/compaq/1.11/#compaq-ms-dos-111-boot-sector)
is completely different from all PC-DOS 1.x boot sectors. The COMPAQ boot sector supports both 160Kb and 320Kb
formats with less code and without requiring "patches", although that flexibility did require reading the first
FAT sector, which PC-DOS 1.x boot sectors did not do.
Using the PCjs Debugger, we can examine the boot sector in its native environment:
bp &0000:7C00 hit
@ -131,6 +136,46 @@ Using the PCjs Debugger, we can examine the boot sector in its native environmen
AX=0000 BX=7C00 CX=0004 DX=0000 SP=0100 BP=E4B7 SI=0000 DI=0044
SS=0030 DS=0040 ES=0000 PS=F296 V0 D0 I1 T0 S1 Z0 A1 P1 C0
&0000:7C00 EB27 JMP 7C29
>> db 7c00 l200
&0000:7C00 EB 27 90 08 00 14 00 00-00 00 00 00 02 01 01 00 .'..............
&0000:7C10 02 40 00 40 01 FE 01 00-08 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 .@.@............
&0000:7C20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 CD-19 FA 8C C8 8E D8 33 D2 ..............3.
&0000:7C30 8E D2 BC 00 7C FB B8 60-00 8E D8 8E C0 33 D2 8B ....|..`.....3..
&0000:7C40 C2 CD 13 72 69 E8 85 00-72 DD 2E 83 3E 03 7C 08 ...ri...r...>.|.
&0000:7C50 74 06 2E C6 06 64 7D 02-BB 00 00 2E 8B 0E 03 7C t....d}........|
&0000:7C60 51 B0 09 2A C1 B4 00 8B-F0 56 33 D2 33 C0 8A C5 Q..*.....V3.3...
&0000:7C70 2E F6 36 64 7D 8A E8 8A-F4 8B C6 B4 02 CD 13 72 ..6d}..........r
&0000:7C80 2D 5E 59 2E 29 36 05 7C-74 1F 8B C6 2E F7 26 65 -^Y.)6.|t.....&e
&0000:7C90 7D 03 D8 FE C5 B1 01 51-BE 08 00 2E 3B 36 05 7C }......Q....;6.|
&0000:7CA0 7C 05 2E 8B 36 05 7C EB-C0 EA 00 00 60 00 BE 67 |...6.|.....`..g
&0000:7CB0 7D E8 02 00 EB FE 32 FF-2E AC 24 7F 74 0B 56 B4 }.....2...$t.V.
&0000:7CC0 0E BB 07 00 CD 10 5E EB-EF C3 E9 33 FF BB 00 00 ......^....3....
&0000:7CD0 B9 04 00 B8 01 02 CD 13-1E 72 33 8C C8 8E D8 BF .........r3.....
&0000:7CE0 00 00 B9 0B 00 26 80 0D-20 26 80 4D 20 20 47 E2 .....&.. &.M G.
&0000:7CF0 F4 BF 00 00 BE 8B 7D B9-0B 00 FC F3 A6 75 0F BF ......}......u..
&0000:7D00 20 00 BE 97 7D B9 0B 00-F3 A6 75 02 1F C3 BE 1B ...}.....u.....
&0000:7D10 7D E8 A2 FF B4 00 CD 16-1F F9 C3 0D 0A 4E 6F 6E }............Non
&0000:7D20 2D 53 79 73 74 65 6D 20-64 69 73 6B 20 6F 72 20 -System disk or
&0000:7D30 64 69 73 6B 20 65 72 72-6F 72 0D 0A 52 65 70 6C disk error..Repl
&0000:7D40 61 63 65 20 61 6E 64 20-73 74 72 69 6B 65 20 61 ace and strike a
&0000:7D50 6E 79 20 6B 65 79 20 77-68 65 6E 20 72 65 61 64 ny key when read
&0000:7D60 79 0D 0A 00 01 00 02 0D-0A 44 69 73 6B 20 42 6F y........Disk Bo
&0000:7D70 6F 74 20 66 61 69 6C 75-72 65 0D 0A 00 4D 69 63 ot failure...Mic
&0000:7D80 72 6F 73 6F 66 74 2C 49-6E 63 20 69 62 6D 62 69 rosoft,Inc ibmbi
&0000:7D90 6F 20 20 63 6F 6D 30 69-62 6D 64 6F 73 20 20 63 o com0ibmdos c
&0000:7DA0 6F 6D 30 05 C6 06 77 2F-FF 83 7E FC 00 75 0B 80 om0...w/..~..u..
&0000:7DB0 7E F7 3B 75 05 C6 06 76-2F FF 89 EC 5D CA 04 00 ~.;u...v/...]...
&0000:7DC0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
&0000:7DD0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
&0000:7DE0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
&0000:7DF0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
NOTE: PCjs adds a BPB to the boot sector, which is why the first 32 bytes of the boot sector
appear slightly different from the original [dump](#pc-dos-110-boot-sector) above. The addition of
a BPB makes the disk image mountable by modern operating systems and does not otherwise affect the
operation of the boot sector or any of the code below.
>> tr
AX=0000 BX=7C00 CX=0004 DX=0000 SP=0100 BP=E4B7 SI=0000 DI=0044
SS=0030 DS=0040 ES=0000 PS=F296 V0 D0 I1 T0 S1 Z0 A1 P1 C0