Re: Questions, Questions.. Disarming /RAM

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Chris M wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:54:29 -0600, "Laine Houghton"
><laine@intergate.com> wrote:
>
>(SNIP)
>>Anyway if you want to disable /ram for your own work the following will get
>>the job done.
>(COOL CODE SNIPPED)
>
>Thanks a ton!  I was just going through all the (*.DSK) disk images I
>made from the disks I got off eBay.. One of them had this code for
>doing 80-column "windows".. Turns out it was from the October 1988
>issue of Compute!'s Apple Applications magazine -- and of the two
>Apple magazines I have in my "collection", I have the September and
>October issues.. and they only survived because my name is in them..
>
>I digress.. so the window "system" has a little utility program called
>"DISCONNECT.RAM" that looks like it's doing the same as your code.  I
>read about how to go about it (but no source code) in the prodos 8
>technical reference manual.
>
>I appreciate the code; will put it to good use!

FWIW, Chris, I've never seen a program that could make use
of the auxilliary memory that wasn't smart enough to disable
an empty /RAM automatically.

I don't think you'll need to manually disable it.

-michael

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