john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) (02/26/88)
In article <5070@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: >I read on BIX that 1.3 was going to be 1.2 with NO bug fixes, >just autoboot support. Doesn't that mean new ROMs? Amazing Computing mentions that a new graphics.library could support new, more powerful hardware by supplanting the rom version with a disk-resident one. I wonder, how much could you change via this method? Dos.library (an ARP version, such as Bill Hawes is supposed to be working on)? The "dream Workbench"? FFS? John (trying to fit 8 megs of dreams into 512K of reality :-( -- "The third situation to be described here, the nuclear explosion, is my own entry. The idea springs from the primitive wish to watch a matrix explode." -- A. K. Dewdney
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (02/29/88)
john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) wrote: >Amazing Computing mentions that a new graphics.library could support new, >more powerful hardware by supplanting the rom version with a disk-resident >one. I wonder, how much could you change via this method? Hmmm. I think you'd need to SetFunction() all the calls in the library, but it's certainly do-able. >Dos.library (an ARP version, such as Bill Hawes is supposed to be working on)? I think you'd have to call it something like d0s.library ... but it means you'd have to change the binaries with FileZap or something. >The "dream Workbench"? Since Workbench is just a user-program in ROM, you can write your own, and never call the one in ROM. Just write a new version of loadwb that loads your own version. >FFS? There's a new version of the Mount command for 1.3 that takes some additional params. One of them is FileSystem, where you can name the file system handler you want to run, like L:FastFileSystem or what have you. In fact, FFS is on disk in 1.3, not in ROM. So, it's pretty easy. Of course, for all the ROM code you replace with disk/RAM code, you lose more memory for your applications... ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes." -- from 'Blade Runner'