Re: Is this an alright setup of //e? Sound card questions...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Richard Kilpatrick wrote:

>I can't make it [a Cirtech Flipper 1MB card] work as RAM at least... Though
>there is the weirdness with AppleTalk. Just to make things more interesting,
>I think it /is/ caching something, since as well as appearing as a RAM disk if
>I have the RAM in slot 7, but also seeming to replace the AppleShare disk, it
>doesn't lock up when I try and start BASIC.SYSTEM.

If the card contains a ROM, then it might appear spontaneously as
a RAM disk.  No ROM, no "automagic" RAM disk.

And if it _does_ have a ROM, you can examine it in the monitor
to learn more about how it works.

It is almost certainly not like the "Slinky" design, with the
moving 1-byte window.  More likely, it is a bank-switched
design with a large number of 2KB-16KB pages.  This is
a design not likely to be supported by many programs.

-michael

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