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Article #125256k Upgrade Clarification
From: Bill Dippert
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1986 17:18
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1986 17:18
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David Young (CDY) has called me to task for saying that both the Newell and the RAMBO XL are incompatible with Atari DOS 2.5. Maybe that is what it sounded like, but what I meant to say was that Atari DOS 2.5 when it sets up Ramdisk D8: does not see the full 256k RAM. Instead DOS 2.5's D8 Ramdisk sees another "plain jane" 130XE and does not know about the additional 130k RAM available. What I would like from anyone is a DOS 2.5 compatible DOS that would see the additional 130k RAM and set up D8 with the additional RAM for a SuperRamDisk. Atariwriter+ should also see the additional RAM as expanded banks, or as additional banks. At the present time Atariwriter+ sees the banks thru the use of the Option B command, but AW+ only knows about four 16k banks. Can AW+ be made to see four 48k banks or 12 l6k banks? There are some DOS's out there now that do some or all of this, but they sacrifice compatibility with DOS 2.5. I also like the menu driven format of DOS 2.5, not some of the other "command" type DOS's. o((((( )))))))o ooOO((((( )))))))OOoo ooooooOOOOOO(((((building rock walls around my cave....)))))))OOOOOOOooooo
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 (USS@Tek, v1.0) based on 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site tekigm2.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekig5!tekigm!tekigm2!wrd From: wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8 Subject: 256k Upgrade Clarification Message-ID: <566@tekigm2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 12:18:00 EST Article-I.D.: tekigm2.566 Posted: Tue Apr 8 12:18:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Apr-86 08:44:24 EST Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR Lines: 21 Keywords: Compatiability