TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (02/17/90)
(Sorry, but by the time info-apple messages get to me they lose their real headers, so I don't have your full address) a) You said you have version 2.0 of the PCT. I had not heard there were any updates beyond 1.3c, which is what I have. Does anyone know what changes were made? b) I think it was you who wanted to boot from /ramaepc. I'm not quite sure what you mean, but in anycase I don't think its posible. /ramaepc is simply a way of making use of the PCT's memory when you are not using it as a PC; something in the AEPC pre-boot turns it into a ramdisk for use on the GS. The moment you invoke the PCT as a PC by starting AEPC.SYSTEM that memory gets used as teh PC's memory and anything in it gets wiped out. (I don't know if they bother to clear it out, but since the AEPC BIOS does run a memory test on boot I think that must wipe it out.) and, as a couple of us on the net have noted, its use as a ramdisk is somewhat questionable since at least one popular program (kermit) somehow manages to cause it to be reinitialized after you try to catalog it a couple of times; no-one knows why, but it makes it useless (which is a shame, i'll admit.) TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil