[Coco] SDCC and other C topics

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Sat Mar 19 16:18:49 EST 2005


James,

Assuming room can be found, this would be an ideal enhancement into 
your work on the next generation GIME.  How is that coming along?

Boisy

On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:10 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> Curtis
>
> I can agree on the need for at least another TR bit. That would have
> made the system better by allowing more tasks and their own heap
> of memory. With 2 megs and more there is no reason as to not
> having at least 4 tasks to be switched in at one time.
>
> I always thought that was one of the many limitation of the GIME
> chip.
>
> james
>
>
> On 18 Mar 2005 at 22:49, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>
> Date sent:      	Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:49:27 -0600
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>>  Things
>> would have been better if Tandy had allow 3 or 4 separate  MMU set
>> lists; GRFDRV could have been swapped in/out with a single store  into
>> the task register select, instead of having to preload all of the MMU
>> registers first and then switching tasks.
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