Re: Bitbanger (was Re: memory tester)

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

Paul R. Santa-Maria <paulrsm@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:01bf99ea$f5fc1a80$16bdb3c7@paulrsm...
> John King <joki@eskimo.com> wrote in article
> <8brv6a$r6k$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>...
> > Right. Won't disagree, but a system that won't run GS/OS because of
> memory
> > problems would also, I would think, have trouble with another OS.
>
> A IIgs would have *NO* trouble running DOS 3.3 in the motherboard RAM even
> if every single RAM chip on the memory expansion card was bad.  My
original
> problem was this:  I got a ROM 1 IIgs with an original IIgs memory
> expansion card with 256K.  I believe that all that memory was good.  I
> filled up the memory card with old memory I had laying around and the IIgs
> started acting strange.  I wanted a memory checker that would test the
> memory on the card; bitbanger was useless in my situation.
>
> If the motherboard memory is bad, then all bets are off.

Ok. Thanks for the education. I was thinking of bad main memory ....

So GS/OS will try and load itself into really bad memory? Doesn't it do a
little test first?