jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (04/03/86)
If you buy from CDY what you will want is his OMNIVIEW operating system chip which, among other things, includes the Ramdisk handlers you need. It will also give you 80-column capability, and he includes a very nice word processor. I recommend you also get the Newell RAMROD board (also available from CDY), which lets you keep your standard ATARI O/S chip available at the flip of a switch in case you want to verify that some problem or other is NOT caused by running a non-standard O/S. OMNIVIEW by the way is designed to be more compatible with old 800 software than the new 800XL O/S, so will run many old 800 style programs that require translation to run on the new machines. With the RAMROD board you have sockets for 3 O/S chips. If you don't want to experiment with your own (which you can do in RAM anyway) you probably ought to get CDY's OMNIMONXL O/S to fill the third socket. If you do any Assembly language work, take my word for it, buy OMNIMONXL first and ask questions later. -John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa ...ihnp4!linus!mbunix!jhs