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From: tony@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds)
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Subject: Re: TT TOS (and operating systems in general
Keywords: TOS OSs carts???
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.003736.13171@cs.olemiss.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 00:37:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jan7.005252.10937@bwdls61.bnr.ca> fortinp@bwdls56.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin) writes:

>Well, for starters:  The current OS (1.4) fits in 192K of ROM, *BUT* there
>is only 128K available on the cart port.  If you can figure how to squeeze 
>the OS into that little cart...  :^)
>

Put a kernel OS with RAM jump-tables on the internal ROMS.
Add 128K of updates to the cartridge port.

Only problems are: What do you decide to put on the cart?
                   When do you release a new internal ROM?
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