Re: New ][ Hardware

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean) writes:

>If there really are no reasons why the ROMs and softswitches cannot be
>accessed wholely in bank $E0 - then its up to the system software.
>The system software should run not in bank $00, and all shadowing should
>be turned off (and the language card should be moved over $C000, which
>is possible with a soft switch).
>The only thing holding us back from a linear memory arrangement then
>would be Super-hires (which you need to shadow just for speed reasons,
>given the GS's design).
>There would then be at least another 20K free in precious bank $00.

I've always wondered why it wasn't like that to start with. And it's not too
late to change it either.

BTW, the text screen would also need shadowing. And pages 0 and 1 are used by
CDAs and it's generally weird if you use them... But that's only another 1.5K
 - no big difference.

What would be really nice is if GNO and Swithit and others were to move
stopped programs' DP space out of bank 0 until they run again (Not programs
running in the background  -that would be too slow)

>At the time this was REALLY important - NOW MOST of us couldn't care less.
>MOST of us would be much happier NOW if we had a machine which could be
>easilly and cheaply upgraded in speed and was not limited by the Apple //
>architecture, and the Apple //e emulation ran on the side at 1MHz.

It's still important to be able to run P8 software, though I'd prefer if
there was some ProTerm and AppleWorks stlyle stuff for the GS only.
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