Re: RAM-Based Mouse or Serial Driver Feasible?

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

Previously tribby@hpindda.cup.hp.com (David Tribby) wrote:
 
>Dave Lyons recently wrote...
>>
>>If there were a RAM-based GS/OS driver for RAM5, it could make RAM5
>>show up even when slot 5 is set to Your Card.  It -might- even be able
>>to make RAM5 show up under ProDOS 8, but that's much harder!
>>
>Could something similar be done to write a RAM-based GS/OS driver to
>access the built-in mouse, modem, or printer port? Then I could still
>use the built-in port, but have a different card in one of those slots.
>It seems like such a driver would "simply" have to duplicate the
>firmware code that would normally be switched in.
 
I believe ProTERM 3.0 does this to some degree, or at least something
simialar. I can have slot 2 set to "Your Card" and still use the modem
port.
 
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