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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: New IIgs ROMs
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 11:04:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 11:04:25 1987
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This article gave me more technical info that I had gotten yet on CIS (thanks
a lot!) but I am interested in more yet.  What does it mean that 'there wasnt
enough room for Prodos 2.0 and the toolsets in ram'?  In 256k?  That seems
rather extreme ; Unix v6 used to fit in 64k, and as far as I am concerned 
does a WHOLE lot more than Prodos 2.0 looks like it is going to do.  Why
does it seem that Prodos 16 is so doggone big?  Is it being written in 65816?
or in a High Level Language?  If assembler, do the folks who are doing the
coding know the assembler well, or are they primarily high level programmers
struggling to get by in assembler?  I dont want to criticize - I havent even
seen the O/S yet, but I have seen nothing to indicate that true multi-tasking
with communications will be built into the O/S; all the darn thing does is
write to disks, and I would guess most of that is done in the device handlers.

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