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Re: PRODOS in ROM chip; boot from ROM
On 4 May 1997 00:06:32 GMT, cv985@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael
Elliott) wrote:
>stephen e buggie (buggie@musca.unm.edu) writes:
>>
>> PRODOS IIe/IIc is only about 35K or 35 blocks; this could easily fit on a
>> ROM.
1K = 2 blocks :)
>> Since there are no more recent Prodos-8 versions other than v.2.0.3,
>> could Prodos be placed on a ROm for super-fast booting???
If it could, why? Unless you also put your programs in ROM, you'd
still hafta wait for them to load. PRODOS loading, in the grand
scheme of loading a disk, is not a real big wait, IMHO.
>> If yes, then how???
Well, maybe one of comp.sys.apple2's EPROM (sp?)-bruning friends could
copy it onto a chip so that it could be swapped in exchange for the
last 16K of motherboard RAM (assuming you have 64K on the
motherboard).
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