Re: GSOS patch?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4gqrfn$g2o@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
Adalbert Goertz <gj380@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
>Here is a challenge to you programmers out there:

   There are FAR better things to spend time on than the few thousand
people in your boat. I don't think the project would be worthwhile, I
don't have the needed source code or time to do such a thing, and, I
don't have a //e slotted ram card to test anything, or anything else.
 
>My ROM01 system has a GS-RAM (1.5MB) and a RAMFactor (1MB).
>The RAMFactor is not utilized by System 601 as it should be.
>Here is my question and wish list for a revised System 602:

   "As it should be?" Quote me chapter and verse of documentation
that says that all ram in the system is recognized by the OS.
 
>The total memory recognized by System 601 is 1792k, but only less than
>1000k is available as free memory for applications.  The installer
>does not provide for installing to RamFactor without loading GSOS to
>aux.memory.

   I take it you haven't read my posting regarding your last question
with respect to graphical programs and your RamFactor. In case you did
but ignored my comments as usual, let me put this simply: GS PROGRAMS
WANT TO RUN FROM GS RAM. GS/OS IS A GS PROGRAM. THE RAMFACTOR IS NOT
GS RAM, IT IS VERY DIFFERENT //E RAM.

   The 800K or so of memory used by "GS/OS" is over 90% code. To get
them to run from RamFactor, you'd have to rewrite everything from
scratch, since the methods of accessing memory (something that
programs do all the time) are completely different.

   If you wanted to "patch" GS/OS to recognize some oddball form of
memory, it'd be simpler to rewrite the whole darn thing from scratch.
YOU can do that. Redoing 800K of code would take at least a month of
working 8-10 hours a day IF you had the full source code. No thank
you.

Nathan Mates
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