🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <bazyar.722074445@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
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>  I'd like to as well, but there are major problems with something like
>that. The major one is that GS/OS and ProDOS 8 occupy the same memory
>when loaded (not programs, but the operating systems themselves).
[...]
>
>  GNO can _shut down_, and then run a P8, and return to GNO, but GNO can't
>simply pause processes and run P8 because programs like Proterm and
>AppleWorks 3.0 assume they have free run of memory; they'll overwrite
>anything in GS memory whether they really use it or not.

    Not quite... Proterm and Appleworks at least are smart enough not to
march all over things like PIF's and desk accessories and other memory
already taken by GS/OS.  Can't you reserve application memory (either in
SI! or GNO) in the same way, run ProDOS 8 while putting everything on hold,
and restore stack, pointers, etc. when on return from P8?  There might be
a delay going into and leaving ProDOS 8, and there might be a significant
memory overhead, but I'd be willing to sacrifice that to run a single P8
program under SI or GNO.
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