Re: FDHD Blues

[jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)]

>dropping support of the /RAM5 volume was a deliberate decision.
 
Give us a break. What a pain and an exception it would be for Apple to have all
its new cards latch into pre-existing slot firmware. A better perspective might
result if Apple recommended slot 6, implying no more support for 5.25", which I
wouldn't mind at all.
 
If one of those reserved toolsets is the RAM disk routines, perhaps Apple
should write a GS/OS loaded driver, freeing RAM disks from slot dependency. I
wonder if this would be faster or slower.
 
If Apple wanted to "drop support" for RAM5, they could make ProDOS 8 and GS/OS
not use it.
 
>how ever ROM1's (the 80 % rank) dont allow access to 16 bit code
>and slots at the same time.
 
Huh? What do you mean? Slot ROM's can have 16 bit code and can call IIGS 16-bit
code.

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  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu