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Article #2627Re: Turtle 3.0 suggestion
From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 07:51
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 07:51
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In article <4821@ttidca.TTI.COM> woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
writes:
>Turtle has severe memory problems. It, with the RAMdisk, just barely fits
>into the 1M machines. Adding features and options is limited by memory to
>the most crucial items. The most crucial, in the immediate future, is the
>support of the way TOS 1.4 handles the Archive bit. Next is more flexibility
>for diskette formats.
Why not trash the GEM stuff and the Turtle Logo. I guess that would give you
more memory. If a program is run as a '.prg' then you can still use the mouse
via the Line-A routines & variables.
You could then access text menus. Not so pretty but more memory.
If a program is run from \auto it gets more memory because GEM is not up yet.
How about a \auto version that only comes up when say both shifts are pressed
during boot time. (Now folk will yell at me because this conflicts with their
magic utility :-)
>*George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA
>*Path: ..!{philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside
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