Re: TI-H: DriverLESS Memory Expander


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Re: TI-H: DriverLESS Memory Expander



At 08:59 PM 11/16/97 -0700, Grant Stockly wrote:

>Well, that wouldn't add more than about 32k.  The rom in the calcs doesn't
>even support more than that.  It would take a long time, and your warntee
>would void.
>
>>what about adding directly to the existing memory in the calc so that it
uses
>>the existing MAP.?  Im surprised nobody has devised a lan to take care of
>>that.

Actually it would be impossible.  The ROM is addressed in from $0000-$3FFF
for page 0 and $4000 to $7FFF for pages 1 to 7.  The RAM is addressed from
$8000 to $FFFF (including stack and video mem).  Because the Z80 can only
use 16-bit addresses that's all the memory it can address.  The TI-86 uses
RAM pages, but this would be impossible on the 85 because even if you added
it, the ROM wouldn't support it.


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