jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) (08/27/90)
In article <Aug.26.14.09.20.1990.12532@pilot.njin.net> roccella@pilot.njin.net (Matthew Roccella) writes: >When I boot off the system diskette, I >have the WHOLE OS-9 library at my finger tips and I have 56k out of my >128k machine to play with. When I boot off my customized diskette, I >only have 48k to play with and I have less modules loaded into memory. 56K - 48K = 8K, the (rather large, unfortunately) unit in which the GIME lets one allocate RAM, so somehow you've got your customized diskette set up so that an extra unit is required. The first culprit I'd look at is /dd/cmds/shell on your custom diskette. Did you leave things out of it to try to use less RAM? The reason they added all those other commands to the file is that the shell is barely 1K long, so a tad less than 7K would be wasted if all that was in /dd/cmds/shell was just the shell. >If anybody out there has had there COCO3 upgraded, and I'm sure you >ALL did, can you tell me where you got it done? Did you let Radio >Shack do it, or did you buy one of those advertised upgrade kits? >Would a memory upgrade on a COCO3 be possible for an average do - it - >your self person, or should you let a professional do it? Radio Shack's prices for the 512K upgrade may have improved since the last time I looked--the 1989 catalog, I think, came out in the midst of the gov't-induced RAM shortage, and had a pretty outrageous price. I got a Disto 512K upgrade some time ago (lucked out and did it before the RAM shortage), and if you get any upgrade with the RAM already installed, then it's trivial to install it yourself. I'm hardwarily incompetent, and it was no problem for me, so anybody should be able to do it. :-) >After I get my COCO3 upgraded, you can be sure to see some good >BASIC09 source code posted here. I LOVE to write programs, especially >graphics programs. Great. Be sure to get on the BITNET CoCo mailing list and check out some of the files available from its file server, most notably various patches that speed up and correct some pesky bugs in WindInt, and Kent Meyers's patches to MultiVue if you plan to use that environment. James Jones (This message treated with lemon-freshened DISCLAIMO with borax, to remove any opinions of any organization other than those of the bunch of eukaryotes posting the message. :-)
lapp@hppad.HP.COM (David Lapp) (08/29/90)
I also bought the Disto RAM upgrade and would reccommend it. I bought it without RAM and installed the chips myself. I saved some money doing that but if you are unsure of how to go about doing it you should probably by the upgrade with RAM. Installing the upgrade itself is quite easy and the instructions that came with the board were clear enough for even a novice. Having 512K is much nicer and well worth the expense. Dave Lapp lapp@hppad.waterloo.hp.com Standard Disclaimer etc...