skankman@ux3.lbl.gov (David Schurig) (12/30/90)
Some of you may have seen CMT's battery-backed RAM cards in the Educalc catatlog. The 128K card is only $150. Is there any reason not to buy this card instead of HP's $185 card? Has anybody used one of these? Who is CMT? Thanks for any info, Daev
frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (12/30/90)
Mine should be coming tommorow. CMT = Corvalis Micro Technology
I can see no reason to get the HP cards and I suspect that the only reason
that they are so much more is just because they have the HP name.
Anyone else know anything about them?
And in a related vein, I have been reading up on RAM cards so as to have the
most fun with the one that I am getting. I have a question that is
not clear in either the manuals or Jim's Handbook.
Can you FREE more than 30K?
In other words.. If I have 90K of merged memory can I convert it to
freed memory? I know that you have to have less than 30K to pull a card
that has been used as merged memory, but the manual uses the word
convert and I wonder if I can convert 80K in port 0 to 80K in port 1..
Any ideas?
ian
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+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_akcs.dnickel@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Derek Scott Nickel) (01/01/91)
Ian,
FREE takes a list and a port number. The list contains the names of
objects to save in the FREE'ed port.
Derek S. Nickelfrechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (01/01/91)
In article <277f6f3d:1532.2comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.dnickel@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Derek Scott Nickel) writes: >Ian, > >FREE takes a list and a port number. The list contains the names of >objects to save in the FREE'ed port. > > Derek S. Nickel Yes.. I know that.. It also says that if you have a blank list and a port number it will free that port. Says that you have to have enough available memory to hold all your variables and everything that is in port 0. What I want to know is if this means that you have to have enough memory after you FREE everything or what. My example was something like this: One 128K card in calc. (merged) 80K worth of objects in user memory. Is there ANY way to free that card and pull if from the calculator without having to destroy 50K worth of stuff. TFM is not very verbose in its description of the FREE command and procedure. I want to *convert* merged memory to *freed* memory. (more than 30K) Oh and I found out that my 128K card is STILL on backorder. I called them today when after my card was supposed to be here and they said they got 50 CMT cards in and sent out 50 within a day. I was somewhere around 60 or 65. erk. Oh and if you plan to get an EE card from sparcom sometime in the 90's then you should order it now. Apparently they have something like 200 back-orders. Fun fun. ian -- +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_ THERE WILL BE NO STUDENT DEFERMENTS!! Something to think about. -=Runaway Daemon=- +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_