[comp.os.cpm] Bank Switching Z-System on the HD64180

V125KJG8@UBVMS.BITNET (05/15/87)

Can anybody out there figure out a way to effectively bank switch the BDOS
and BIOS portion of Z-System into bank 1 (or any other bank) of the HD64180
so I can push the TPA size over my cramped 49K?  Any hints or helps out there
would be appreciated.

  --Curtis R. Anderson
  State University of New York at Buffalo

  V125KJG8@UBVMS.BITNET

apn@nonvon.UUCP (05/15/87)

in article <8705150402.AA10559@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, V125KJG8@UBVMS.BITNET says:
> 
> Can anybody out there figure out a way to effectively bank switch the BDOS
> and BIOS portion of Z-System into bank 1 (or any other bank) of the HD64180
> so I can push the TPA size over my cramped 49K?  Any hints or helps out there
> would be appreciated.
> 
>   --Curtis R. Anderson
>   State University of New York at Buffalo
> 
>   V125KJG8@UBVMS.BITNET


That's easy.... throw away Z-(whatever) and get CP/M 3.1 At least there you have
a 63k tpa.   Disk I/O is faster.... LRU buffering is active, hashing on
hard disk directories.....


Alex P Novickis
Fulcrum Computer Products

RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Rick Conn) (05/15/87)

Hello, Curtis,
	Echelon is working the bank switching problem, last I heard.
Perhaps you should contact them to see how they are coming.  It really
isn't an easy problem at all, especially with environment descriptor and
message buffer access being required for Z System operation.

		Rick
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