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From: mckay@PURDUE-ECN.ARPA
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Subject: Ram disks and OSS Pascal
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 14:12:53 EST
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I've finally gotten both the RAM upgrade and TOS in ROM installed on my ST.

After discoving that the various public domain RAM disks don't work with TOS
in ROM and figuring out how to boot with old TOS, I tried OSS pascal.  (is
there a PD ram disk which works with TOS in ROM?)

The results are staggering:

operation:		All Floppy	ALL Ram disk	Split

Compile and link
"hello, world"		1:20		0:05 (!)	0:23

Compiling 9k
GEM program		2:30		0:21 (!)	didn't try yet.

The most intersting number for me in the Split number.  In this setup I had
my source on floppy and the compiler and libraries on the RAM disk.  The OSS
compiler and linker handle this very well, correctly loading the libraraies
from the disk the compiler is on while placing the source, object and final
program on the floppy.

I have a short analog clock program I posted to USENET's net.micro.atari a
few weeks back.  It is written in OSS Pascal and I'd be happy to post it
here if enough folks are interested.  If not I can mail source and uuencoded
binary to one or two folks.

--Dwight Mckay, ECN Text Processing Software Support
[arpa: mckay@ee.purdue.edu, usenet:...ihnp4!pur-ee!mckay, phone:(317)494-3561]

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