[Coco] (Mega2) Was: new question/survey

[Robert Gault]

Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> It may have been done when the real hardware 8 Megs was built, I forget
> the person and the name of the project.

Paul Barton created boards with 8 Megs and higher. The use of this 
memory in NitrOS-9 has been discussed but there does not seem to be a 
good way to make the OS aware of it and able to use it. You run out of 
system memory. :)
There are no problems with a user grabbing the extra memory and using it 
directly. Just don't expect to be able to use normal OS-9 system calls 
when accessing memory over 2 Megs.

In short the situation is exactly analogous to using over 128K under 
Disk Basic. Any user can access it via ml programs but the OS is clueless.