[Coco] Virtual Memory in OS-9

[Bob Devries]

It would appear that this version of curses (on RTSI) requires a file 
"termcap.h". Unfortunately, I can't locate that file. Pete Lyal's termcap 
for Level 2 (also on RTSI) doesn't have a file of that name.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Virtual Memory in OS-9



> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:59:27PM -0500, William Schaub wrote:

>

>>if the operating system has calls for allocating more memory to a

>>process, or if everything has to have memory allocated statically.

>>

> No, you can brk() for more memory.  If that's not suffiencent, there

> are ways to manually allocate more memory blocks, but then switching

> between them becomes your problem.

>

>> Also I really want to know if it's possible to execute programs that use

>> more memory than is physically installed by paging to mass storage of

>> some sort.

>

> The Pascal compiler has a swapping p-code interpeter, otherwise, nope.

>

>> It would be very nice if something similar to the UNIX mmap() system

>> call is available.

>

> Nope.

>

>> I saw a lot of unix tool ports on the rtsi archive so it cant be too

>> bad.  But I'm wondering if theres a way to make curses apps run on OS-9

>

> The curses library on rtsi is source-only and no one (that I know of)

> has been able to get it to compile.  My personal opinion is that the

> guy accidently uploaded the MS-DOS source he started with, not the

> finished port. :-(

>

>> does the OS-9 console emulate any particular type of terminal? (one that

>> implements escapes for character attributes, cursor movement and such)

>

> Yep.  Even the graphics can be completely controlled by

> escape-sequences.  That's how the cgfx library (docs are in the

> multivue manual) works.

>

> Willard

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