Re: Contiki programmer needs ProDOS8 1.9

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>Subject: Re: Contiki programmer needs ProDOS8 1.9
>From: Oliver Schmidt ol.sc@web.de 
>Date: 1/7/2005 2:25 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <crn26c$pb4$1@online.de>
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>Hi,
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>>>>I can certainly understand a 64KB and a 128KB version,
>>>>since that is a _big_ difference in capability, but it might
>>>>be easily managed in a modular fashion.
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>>>This kind of modular design tends to use memory itself - which I can't
>>>spend because it's not there ;-)
>
>>I understand.  It's an annoying irony that when a program can be made
>>to "just fit" in tight memory, there is no room for the code that could
>>exploit more memory when it is available.
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>In fact cc65 defines an "extended memory" interface and I'll
>eventually write a driver for it using //e aux memory.
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>But even if this is available and even if it fits into main memory
>it's still just a memory window you can "map" pages in. The real
>problem is to make use of it...
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>>This is particularly ironic for the enhanced Apple //e, since at this time
>>I would suppose that the majority of systems actually "in use" have
>>RAMworks or other expanded memory, which could be _extrememly_
>>useful to Contiki.
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>As Contiki is an event driven system it's very hard to move something
>out of main memory because you can merely never say it's unused for
>some time. The next event could could be adressing the very code you
>just moved away.
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>What could make sense for Contiki - at least in my opinion - is this:
>Currently the Contiki web browser only stores the part of the web page
>that is visible. If you want to see the next part of the page it goes
>out and re-gets the page. So it would be nice to optionally (if
>"extended memory" is available) cache more of the page in memory to
>allow to scroll through the page locally. But I'm afarid that this
>will already break the memory limits.
>
>Oliver
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If you still need ProDOS v1.9 I'm fairly sure you can get it on this disk
archive:

A2.HIGHSPEED.SCSI.UTIL.SDK 
     
from this folder.

http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ftp.apple.asimov.net/unsorted/

Perhaps you can also find many other archives to help you with your programming
needs in this folder also.


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