knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (02/18/87)
are you out there, line eater?
I finally got around to making an OS9 Version 2 boot
with Dave Lewis' Newdisk replacement for CCDisk.
I had to do a lot of ident's on things, and I noticed
that Newdisk is over 2 pages (>512 bytes) smaller
than DP Johnson's SDisk, which I'd been using for
two years on Versions 0 and 1.
So, I went back and remade my Version 1 boots with
Newdisk instead of SDisk. I can now boot with 175 + M
pages free, where M = memory used by Mfree itself.
Nice programming, Dave! And Newdisk can even tell when
a drive doesn't have a diskette in it (just like RS-BASIC)!
I strongly recommend this driver to anyone who like myself
is very cramped for RAM space (#207).
BTW, I've made a Version 2 Coco3 boot that comes up in
80 columns, using the 80-column driver posted here a while back.
Now to figure out how to remove the CO32 and TERM32 from
the bootfile altogether...mike k
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Mike J Knudsen ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T)
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