[Coco] any interest in an 8MB ram card for COCO3?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Apr 16 16:23:20 EDT 2010


On Friday 16 April 2010, John W. Linville wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:47:28PM -0400, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>> If Nitros-9 won't be extended to address more memory then there is no
>> point I suppose.  The scope of what I am thinking of is a RAM card
>> only - no software, no application...just a RAM subsystem...Steve
>
>There is, of course, the Disto(?) 1- and 2-meg designs that NitrOS-9
>should support. 

It does, very well.

>And there was Paul Barton's NoCan3(?) that went to
>8-meg as well -- I'm not sure how much support there is for that one.

Getting the hardware into the users hands will probably make that happen.

>An SRAM-based card would have a different hardware design, but
>it certainly could have a programming architecture similar (or
>identical) to the designs mentioned above.  If you are only doing a
>windowed-memory (a la DOS EMS memory) or RAMdisk device then I would
>be much less intersted.
>
>John
>


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