Re: Bitbanger (was Re: memory tester)

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"John King" <joki@eskimo.com> writes:


>"Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@ameritech.net> wrote in message
>news:01bf991d$50194d40$181e12d1@paulrsm...
>>
>> A IIgs memory checker could be a simple ProDOS 8 program that needs a few
>> kilobytes of motherboard memory to run code to check the megabyte of
memory
>> on the expansion card.  A memory checker that only runs on an operating
>> system that takes up all the memory on the card?  Sorry, I think that is a
>> poor design.
>
>Right. Won't disagree, but a system that won't run GS/OS because of memory
>problems would also, I would think, have trouble with another OS.
>

If you can find the MECC program COMPUTER INSPECTOR it does a good job of 
testing memory on all models of Apple II machines. It runs on Apple IIs 
with only 48k (maybe even less) of memory so it will run on most machines 
even if they have RAM chip problems.

Owen