Re: Questions on Accelerators and RamWorks III

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

pitz wrote:
> 
> Being able to use a better (more recent) monitor has always been top
> on my lists.  May not be as important if the intent is a headless Unix-
> like environment.
> 

Sounds like you read the blog entry. :-)

I'm not planning on being able to use an external terminal to control the
system for quite some time. It'll be all keyboard and built-in video for
awhile.

> Related to your work, I've been pondering the same with the IIgs.
> Maybe take GNO/ME as a base and proceed from there.

Yes, I too am interested in looking at the GNO/ME source. I find that the
barrier to entry is still a little too steep for me at the moment.

> I looked at the
> IIe/IIc for a while, but the 256-byte fixed-location stack is a
> deterrent to multi-tasking (unless you copy in/out all 256 bytes on
> each task-switch).  

I was planning on using multiple page zeroes with the RamWorks III card.

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