Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!joe
From: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: COMODORE
Message-ID: <8104@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 17:53:01 GMT
References: <89100219291040@masnet.uucp>
Reply-To: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <89100219291040@masnet.uucp> iain.bennett@canremote.uucp
 (IAIN BENNETT) writes:
> 
>About that person who was complaining about Commodoore softwrae
> 
>The answer is, if software developers made software, games I'm really
>hitting at, that worked with a 1764, 1581 and other hardware, people
>might have to go out and buy these pieces of hardware for the game to
>work.  Also, your computer does not have 640k.  That 512k is only for
>use as a disk drive.  I have a 1764, and I wish there was more
>productivity software for it, but the games would have a big problem. 
>The REUs are only for use as a diskdrive.  

The RAM Expanders can be used in other ways besides a disk drive. The processor
cannot access the area directly, so programs can't execute from this space.
However, application software can use the REU as a swap space for executables
or as extended space for data (word processing documents, telecom buffers).