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Re: Does an enhanced //e _ALWAYS_ have 80 col. support?
- Subject: Re: Does an enhanced //e _ALWAYS_ have 80 col. support?
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 25 Nov 2004 07:45:05 GMT
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Oliver Schmidt wrote:
>2. How do I detect that an 80 col card is actually installed? Checking
>for the existence of the $C300 firmware seems to be wrong from what I
>understood from your answers.
Since the card is functionally nothing but memory, it will take a
memory test to determine whether it is present and how large
it is. The firmware initialization may do this test--I don't know.
-michael
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