...what CP/M software is out
there (except maybe a RAM disk) that can *use* 1MB?
Many many years ago, John Henderson, who ran Tall Tree Systems
came by myComputer Faire booth and asked me if I had ever written
any software thatused lots of RAM. I assumed that he was asking
about qualifications for some project. I struggled to understand
what he wanted to commission.
Eventually, we got it straight that he was not looking for
ANYTHING specific, he just wanted to promote RAM hungry systems,
because he was designing MB and LARGER! RAM cards for 5150 ("JRAM").
What he wascreating was a system for "Expanded Memory", long before
Lotus, Intel, Microsoft "standardized" it. He was apparently not
invited to be part of that, in spite of being the primary such
product actually ON THE MARKET, but he provided LIM support right
afterwards.
He came up with a Canon CX engine rasterizer add-on for his
RAM cards, called JLASER. At that time Tthe HP LaserJet-
(HP preferred to call them "LaserJet CLASSIC", rather than
"MINUS"),and LaserJet+ were essentially text only, with 256K of RAM.
Then he added [Canon IX?] scanner support with JLASER+
He came up with a way to use lots of RAM.
Could a similar system be hacked together for CP/M?
(He also wrote JFORMAT, which created disks for PC with 10
(instead of 9) 512 byte sectors per track, ability to use
96tpi "quad" drives, and ignoring the manufacturers warnings,
to use 41 or even 42 tracks on 40 track drives.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com