jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) (11/17/90)
Craig asks if anyone is writing diagnostics. The answer is "yes." Gary has ported and/or written a number of popular memory diagnostics already, which we have both run for many hours on our own pc532's. I am now in the middle of writing the disk diagnostics and may do some CPU and FPU diagnotics as well if I can figure out what exactly constitutes meaningful diagnostics for either of the two. We will release the entire set of diags as a nice, menu driven, easy to load diag package sometime in the future, no promises when. To answer the unasked question, yes, we did try to stick the memory diags in the boot ROM, but ran out of room! I think it's sensible at this point just to make a separate stand-alone package out of them rather than waste time trying to bum bytes from the monitor. Jordan