Re: A85: 11 one-meg expander chips left for sale!
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Re: A85: 11 one-meg expander chips left for sale!
>Will the new expanders be compatible with the old, in the sense that
>you could still use the same Usgard functions to send and receive?
Well the expander libraries were never implemented and they were taken
out of Usgard early in development, despite what many people think.
>library would mask out any incompatabilities (and
>reduce the size of Usgard for anyone who doesn't own an expander)
>between different expanders, if there are any.
The Expander II and III will somewhat be backward compatible with the
Expander SF. I'm not focusing on compatibility though, because really
the expander's main function is simply external storage, which the
Expander SF does well already. But for the most part they will
probably be treated as separate and incompatible devices.
However, I probably will create libraries for the Expander II that
will allow applications that use the expander to use the Expander SF
equivalently. I'm not sure how far I can take this though, because
the expander II will have much more built-in intelligence than the SF
and therefore not all functions for the II can be emulated with the
SF.
-Mel
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-The TI-Memory Expansion Homepage
-http://www.egr.msu.edu/~tsaimelv/expander.htm
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