17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
10:02 a.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Browser schnauzer... "We no need no steeekin
browser!"
Umm what about email ... :)
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. ;-)
That is what real HD's are for.
Note the main other reasion I have not kept up todate with the
Coco after my Coco 3 died is lack of software.
2 questions:
1) Is there such a thing as "fake 12-bit
bytes?" ;-)
yes ... the ones with 8 bits. I favor a 9 bit byte but 7 bits
was
standard until we got all this code page crap from M$.
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.
Go wire-wrap! CoCoZilla with 64 Meg!
http://home.wwdb.org/irgroup/frontpage.html
That, and to learn more about memory; altho the more I
learn about DRAM,
the more I *like* SRAM. ;-)
The odd thing - the original CoCo chip set could support static ram.