[Coco] 1 or 2 meg upgrade

[Bill Pierce]

William, having 1 or 2 meg on the Coco 3 is one of those things that you never knew you needed, till you have it for a while.... and then have to do without it. LOL
I occassionally run Vcc in 512k to test my projects to see if they run well in that environment (since I program in 2meg).
Sometimes I forget to set the memory back, and I crank up Vcc, open a couple or three of text editors (graphics based), start compiling my project, then run MShell.... "ERROR #207".
With 2-3 text editors using about 98k each, a 96k ramdisk, and the C compiler running (the C compiler and editors both kick in Gene's "MyRam") ... MShell won't run.
It usually take me a second or two to realize what I've done :-)
I don't think I would like working with less than at least 1-meg anymore, I've gotten used to it being there.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Nov 22, 2014 12:10 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] 1 or 2 meg upgrade


Back in "the day", I regularly overflowed 512K in OS9. Not only does it 
allow you to run more processes simultaneously, it allows you to have a 
lot more stuff memory resident, which is nice if you're swapping disks 
all the time.