Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/15/03:05:06
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > Is there still 4 empty sockets on the motherboard? That machine should be
> There was 4 empty sockets, however I filled them.
>
> > produce a 768k TPA, 640k regular, and 128k UMB. Yes, it is weird, but
> I could be wrong on the memory thing. I might allready have
> 768k. There was 4 empty sockets there and I grabbed some chips
> showed the extra mem (I can't remember how much though).
> all the stuff I need into a ROM chip!!!!!!! THIS WOULD
> ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
Uh-huh, and with the program in ROM, you could use as little as 40k for
the entire program region using overlays, and have a 700k buffer! (talk
about scroll back), or figure out a method to convince Lynx to run inside
the box with a tcp/ppp stack. (too much?)
> What does the acronym "TPA" stand for?
Uh-oh. Transient Program Area.
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