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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: NewDisk much smaller than SDisk
Message-ID: <1412@ihwpt.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 19:22:16 EST
Article-I.D.: ihwpt.1412
Posted: Tue Feb 17 19:22:16 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Feb-87 22:26:27 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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are you out there, line eater?

I finally got around to making an OS9 Version 2 boot
with Dave Lewis' Newdisk replacement for CCDisk.
I had to do a lot of ident's on things, and I noticed
that Newdisk is over 2 pages (>512 bytes) smaller
than DP Johnson's SDisk, which I'd been using for
two years on Versions 0 and 1.

So, I went back and remade my Version 1 boots with
Newdisk instead of SDisk.  I can now boot with 175 + M
pages free, where M = memory used by Mfree itself.

Nice programming, Dave!  And Newdisk can even tell when
a drive doesn't have a diskette in it (just like RS-BASIC)!

I strongly recommend this driver to anyone who like myself
is very cramped for RAM space (#207).

BTW, I've made a Version 2 Coco3 boot that comes up in
80 columns, using the 80-column driver posted here a while back.
Now to figure out how to remove the CO32 and TERM32 from
the bootfile altogether...mike k
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Mike J Knudsen    ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)
>>>DRUGS are for WIMPS who can't handle SCIENCE FICTION<<<