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About the RAM, what if you used something like the Expander II? Would that
work? It has 512K of RAM for stuff.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of David Phillips
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 2:34 AM
> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: A86: Re: New operating system...
>
>
>
> That IS a good idea, and I have _thought_ about it.  But since the OS is
> contained in ROM, how do you propose to put a new OS on the calculator?
>
> That memory thing does annoy me too.  Why couldn't they have
> flipped the two
> ram page areas ($8000 and $c000)?  IMHO, page F should be stored at $8000
> with the system vars first, with ram page 1 at $c000.  When an asm program
> is loaded, video memory should be swapped to $fc00 and the stack
> right below
> that, thus giving asm programs ~30k of contiguous ram.  Of course, this is
> all hindsight...
>
> >     I am a curious about something.  Who else in the ti-86 community is
> >tired of having to put up with the TI-OS.  In fact I wonder how many
> >people have even thought of programming for an OS other than the built
>
>
>
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