[Coco] Re: Coco Repack

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Tue Aug 10 16:19:55 EDT 2004



ISTR that Motorola had it's own MMU which was different in segment and total
memory sizes from the R/S part.

Neil

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From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>


> Don't think OS-9 has such a call. "Everyone knows" it's 8K.

>

> ISTR that some commercial OS-9 box (GIMIX?) used 4K segments. But then,

> everyone writing for that box knew that. They, like us Coconuts, didn't

worry

> about whether their code would run on other platforms.

>

> BTW, I still think that the Coco was the only 6x09 OS-9 box to do

graphics.

> ISTR even the Fujitsu dual-6809 system was text-only. Corrections

welcome.

> --Mike K.




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