[Coco] new question/survey

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 21 January 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>I do not have a 2MB kit, only 512k in both upgraded CoCos.
>
>A related question though, is it really possible to use the extra RAM?
> I've found that the system page seems to become full before I even
>approach filling 512k.  Are there useful ways to use the full 2MB?

I use up to 1.7 megs of it as a scratchpad automatic ramdisk (it formats 
itself and is ready to function about 100 milliseconds after you invoke a dir 
/r0 command, and deiniz's when you are done, returning every byte to the 
pool), using the myram package I wrote many years ago.  However I can move 
data from my scsi hard drive at virtually the same speed as the ramdisk with 
megaread times of about 12-13 seconds for either, so the only real advantage 
is the silence instead of a seacrate 1Gb hawk pinging away when the compiler 
is running.  It makes you think its actually getting something done when it 
sounds so busy.

And some of us are working on getting level3 running, which will give us back 
8 to 16k of system ram.  So stay tuned as they say. :-)

>On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> 
wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> How many readers of this list have Tony's 2 megabyte kit in their
>> coco3's, or something similar?
>>
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>> Cheers, Gene
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Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)

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