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Re: C Power Graphics Library

#2398
From: jay
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1986 17:21
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In article <1234@sunybcs.UUCP> ugbowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon Bowen) writes:
>One thing though, with the extra 64k the
>128 has over the 64, they built an optional RAM disk. It's 191 blocks
>long, and I've found that this is sufficient for compiling in. For example,
>I say:  cc 2:test.c  and it gets the compiler from the disk, yet compiles
>it on the RAM disk (unit 2), and it doesn't ask for disk swaps! I just got
>done writing a fairly large assembler and micro-code simulator for a class
>that was quite large, but I managed to keep all the source and object
>files on RAM disk and I kept the command files on the disk. Oh, by the
>way, the RAM disk is optional, so you can use that extra 64k for program
>space if you need it.
>
>
>                                   Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)
>********************************************************
Regarding the ram disk, I was wondering if it also supported the new
ram expansions available for the C128. Can one get a large ram disk using
the ram expansions?..... Can one use the extra 64k for program space and have
a ram drive solely in the ram expansion module.

J.(Jay) Kumarasingam
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Subject: Re: C Power Graphics Library
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 12:21:27 EST
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