Hi,
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hi, All,
I'm not joining in the kickstarter because I already have a P112 I
purchased as a bare PCB and loose SMD parts in the previous round. I
I already have a p112, but I felt by participating I'd be helping promote
an interesting project, and I'd have fun building another one.
just uncovered it last night moving some things around
and started
tossing build-parts into a bin to put it together. I do happen to
have a couple of 32-pin JEDEC 512K SRAMs (originally for an SBC6120
RAM disk PCB that got destroyed in the mail), so I _can_ fully
populate it, but it got me wondering... what CP/M software is out
there (except maybe a RAM disk) that can *use* 1MB?
I have a bit of experience with 48K-64K CP/M machines (mostly Kaypro,
but some others), because back when I was using it, that was how much
memory 8-bitters had. I didn't mess with them much after 1985, so if
there was still any development on that platform, I didn't see it.
So why *does* the P112 have 1MB of RAM? What's the space over 64K good for?
See the section here about the Banked BIOS and RAMDISK.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~tgcons/P112%20Faqs.htm
Mark
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