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echo: cis.tandy.coco
to: Mark E. Sunderlin 74026,3235
from: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
date: 1990-07-22 09:31:42
subject: #5440-Dung. Depths 1.5 Crash?

#: 5444 S10/Tandy CoCo
    22-Jul-90  09:31:42
Sb: #5440-Dung. Depths 1.5 Crash?
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Mark E. Sunderlin 74026,3235

Hey, glad to see you back, too!   Messing with your coco again, eh? Or
still?

The basic09 thingie is simply because there are only eight 8K blocks possible
within any 64K ram map. By merging those programs and loading them as one file,
os9 sticks them right beside each other... so they end up in one block instead
of three.

Basic itself is 24K (3 blocks) long. That leaves 8-3=5 blocks left. Take away 3
more for 24K of data space, and you've got 8-3-3=2 blocks left. Obviously gfx,
inkey, and syscall won't fit if they're separate!  (that is, unless you force
basic to Kill them and so unmap them... a time-waster).

SO whatcha been up to? And what machines do you run now? A PC, I bet ;-)

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