Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: ProDOS memory managment (was Re: Extended 80-Col. on //e) Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 88 18:18:03 GMT References: <9594@reed.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 37 Ooooh am I chagrined! "But it looked so smoooothe Mr. Chips!" ummmm, okay, but how if >A) Prodos does *nothing* for Ramcards save as a small /RAM volumn. It has >no auxmem bitmap, it provides no routines for handling aux mem, either data >transfers or code transfer, short of usage as a RAMdisk. How does Prodos accomplish a standard 64K Ramdisk in 128K machines? It's always there, and comes in handy, too. How does it work w/o aux mem handling? (The basic point of my post was that the best use of aux mem and Ramworks-like cards, short of double hires, was as a Ramdisk...) >Anything (*any* card) with memory can be used as a buffer/spooler. Just out of curiosity, why, then, aren't more cards being used as one? It's amazing when Appleworks tells me "loading file into print buffer" and then goes on the let me do other things. No other card offers that... > it get's send to the buffer management software, which periodically sends as much as it can to the > printer whenever it get's the chance. If you want, I'll send you an example. Sounds a little like multitasking. Yes, I'd like an example. Send me E-Mail. Capt. Albatross "I have been made less of an ignorant whatever..." jm7e@drycas (Bitnet) jm7e@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Arpa) ============ disclaimer: These opinions are mine and will remain so until more intelligent or insightful or informed people are kind enough to show me the error of my ways. Remember: A mind is a terrible thing to baste.