[Coco] 1) NitrOS9 memory requirements? and 2) Using DLOAD with Linux serial ports

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 15:07:57 EDT 2011


On 4/11/11, Eric Keppel wrote:
>
> 1) I have been successful in getting NitrOS9 running in RAM by first
> loading one of the DW3 Loader/HDBDOS .WAV files provided by Boisy Pitre
> for Drivewire 3.  Next, I start up the Drivewire server, and boot into
> NitrOS9. Since I am running this from RAM and not a ROM pak, am I going
> to have enough memory to run any useful NitrOS9 programs or is not going
> to be an issue?
>

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It does not matter that you are running HDBDOS from RAM instead of a
ROM pak.  You are only using HDBDOS to start the NitrOS9 boot process.
Once NitrOS9 boots it takes over all of the RAM, removing HDBDOS from
the scene.

Darren



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