17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
9:08 a.m.
Rumor has it that woodelf may have mentioned these words:
Roger Merchberger wrote:
>But the *boards* to stick 'em in aren't exactly easy to find, and Cloud 9
>(http://www.cloud9tech.com/) aren't building/shipping any more hardware
>(including their 512K upgrade boards) until they get the SuperBoard done;
>which might be quite a while yet.
But unless they have a web browser what do you need
512K memory for?
No wait ... a web broweser with graphics has to fit in 64k of memory.
Browser schnauzer... "We no need no steeekin browser!"
With OS-9, one can have Rogue (think old Nethack) playing in one window
(and I redesigned the screen fonts so the "guy" looks like a guy, and
scrolls are scrolls, etc. instead of remembering the symbols -that alone
cannot be done in 128K), DynaCalc running in another window, Basic09 in a
third (and who wants to run Basic09 in 8K??? Heck, give 'er 40K! Why?
'Cause you can!) and a 150K RAMDisk. But what if you needed a 300K RAMDisk?
Now you need more than 512K RAM. ;-)
Good I can sell you 24 bit computer design good to 2
MHZ with real 12 bit
bytes ... :)
2 questions:
1) Is there such a thing as "fake 12-bit bytes?" ;-)
2) What would I want that for? Some people *like* 8-bit bytes (me included)
- I just want more than 512K of RAM in my CoCo. The patches to OS-9 already
exist to give it access to 2M, one just needs to shoehorn functional memory
into the critter to do it.
That, and to learn more about memory; altho the more I learn about DRAM,
the more I *like* SRAM. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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