Apple Pascal RAMdrive

[Martin Doherty <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com>]

Progress report: last night I transferred the UCSDRAMdrive.dsk from 
laptop to Apple II and followed the instructions to set it up.

Outcome: a 1,016 block ramdrive with all system files and > 600 free 
blocks on it. Also, it becomes the boot volume which basically means ALL 
operations can be carried out using the ramdrive.  I tell you, it's 
uncanny to go in and out of the Filer, Editor, compile and run programs 
in utter silence with no floppies grinding away. Things go a lot faster 
too. Thanks again, Willi, for getting me the software.

I have the chips to bump my RAMWorks II up from 512K to 1MB, but right 
now I can't see the incremental benefit, I'm spoiled for room as it is.

Glitch: it worked fine on a plain vanilla 64K Pascal system, but the 
ramdrive initialization code had a problem when it ran on a 128K system 
*. While executing SYSTEM.STARTUP, it stopped with the message

  Put in :
  Press RETURN to continue

or words to that effect.  Pressing RETURN did nothing and I had to 
reboot. I will have to fiddle with this a bit more .. the software 
claims to work fine for both 64K & 128K, and all versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.

* This does not refer to physical machine memory, but is a configuration 
of the Apple Pascal system. The 64K configuration will work on any 64K 
or above machine, but the 128K system obviously requires at least an 
extra 64K in the //e aux slot. The change involves replacing the normal 
SYSTEM.APPLE and SYSTEM.PASCAL with new 128K.APPLE and 128K.PASCAL files 
off the APPLE3: disk (renamed to SYSTEM.=)