From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: large TPA's
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.248
Posted: Mon Dec  6 23:30:47 1982
Received: Wed Dec  8 02:21:41 1982

>From ELIOT@Mit-Dms  Mon Dec  6 23:26:55 1982
To: info-cpm@BRL
Via:  Mit-Dms; 6 Dec 82 20:53-EST
Via:  Brl; 6 Dec 82 21:08-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 6 Dec 82 21:31-EST

	I have not been keeping up with the discussion on the larger TPA
of CPM Plus when used with bank switch memory, but here is a thought
to ponder.  While MOST people probably wont go to the larger TPA CP/M
due to cost, and not wanting to upgrade for one reason or another,
I see no reason to ignore the large TPA.  How many of you have been able
to get a 48k program out of L80?  I will bet that NO ONE has.  It cannot
be done!  L80 uses so much space for symbol tables and what not, and Micro-
Soft has not yet learned how to write things to disk when they are supposed
to be written there, so that L80 cannot make I file much bigger than 40k
on the AVERAGE cpm system.  So now with the LARGER TPA we can make programs
that are bigger, and they will still run on the systems that dont have the
large TPA because it can be kept with in the limits and still be
bigger than the programs we used to be able to write.

						-Eliot at Mit-DM