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In article <777@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> ralph@ccs.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) writes:
>In article <2536@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
>>>In article <764@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> ralph@ccs.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) writes:
>>>|  ETERNAL2 doesn't actually work in a Mega 4...  Using HiSoft's resident
>>>|  ...
>>>|  that the MMU can handle, so it gets a real bus error.  Moshe ??
>>
>>However, Moshe Braner informs me that, yes, he posted an early warm-boot-
>>surviving ramdisk, but ETRNL2 is something that came along later.
>>I still suspect Ralph's ramdisk.
>>
>>The ramdisk program that I use, I have also stored in an ARC file which has
>>these characteristics:
>>
>>Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
>>============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
>>ETRNL2.PRG        1024  Crunched   24%       784  27 Oct 88   2:15p  c37e
>>        ====  ========            ====  ========
>>Total      1      1024             24%       784
>
>
>Umm, I've just noticed it called ETERNAL, not ETERNAL2.  However, pressing
>on...  In the doc file it says:
>
>        (c) Robert Fischer and OSS, 1986.
>
>When running the configuration program, CONFGRAM, it comes out with Robert's
>address in Hamden, CT.  Eternal itself puts up 2 bombs...
>
>This version of ETERNAL came on a floppy that was stuck to the front of
>a magazine called ST/Amiga Format.

Software lives on!  As I recall the history, Robert took Braner's
original ETERNAL and modified it to make it easier to configure.  I
believe he also tightened up the code to use slightly less memory.
The problem on the Mega 4 is probably due to the ramdisk reading the
first location after the top of memory to see if a magic number is
stored there, indicating an existing ramdisk.  That doesn't work on
the Mega 4, so the strategy would have to be changed.  Robert might be
willing to make the change and release a new version if there is still
interest in this program.
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