RE: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander
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RE: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander
I realize that, but I'm thinking that using it as a hard drive would be
a viable option, and useful. Sorta like the 640k barrier ya know.
Mark E. Scott Jr.
mscott@dbcity.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Cunningham [mailto:rogue_ant@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 7:58 PM
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander
Building a memory expansion isn't that hard. But it wouldn't be true
memory
(way too slow). It would have to act like a hard drive...LinuxTI could
use
this for virtual memory, just like most of our home computers do. The
problem is all the coding. This is of course if we are going to use the
link port for memory expansion, and this is a neccessity, since most
users
don't want to really modify their calc.
Josh Cunningham
>From: Mark Scott <mscott@canada.dbcity.com>
>Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
>To: "'assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org'" <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
>Subject: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander
>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:07:14 -0500
>
>
>I think we should investigate making a better memory expander than what
>is currently available. I am versed enough in electonics to build
these
>things. Haven't ever tried to write my own code for one of the chips,
>but I have the ability to program them. Were we to do something like
>this, we could expand the memory capabilities greatly and have many
more
>functions for "LinuxTI". I know someone said something about this
>before, but I believe it was overlooked and it is a good point.
>Theoretically we could build an expander specifically for "LinuxTI"
that
>would contain the code and let the OS handle all the dirty work.
>
>Mark E. Scott Jr.
>mscott@dbcity.net
>
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