[Coco] Shell and Applications in OS9Boot?

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Not too big, not too small. That is the "secret sauce" of making a good bootfile.

The minimum recommended bootfile size is 0x4C01 bytes so that KrnP2 starts at $A000 or lower.  The reason is that the kernel uses the $A000-$BFFF for things like F$Move and copying the system/user stack.

Chris, I don't recall why $8200 is the maximum size, can you explain?
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On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:

> Bob Devries wrote:
>> Joel, you said:
>> 
>>> I think that's it, Chris.  My OS9Boot file comes to 38143 bytes, so I've gone way over the limit.
>> 
>> Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go...... (chortle)
>> 
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> 
> :-)  Well, if I roll doubles I just might get the thing to boot, but it's looking bad for prospects of actually getting the slideshow to run in 128K.
> 
> JCE
> 
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