Msg: 2617 *Conference*
06-02-92 00:00:13
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : MIKE NICHOLS
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #2608 (NEW 102 USER)
Welcome aboard, Mike. Your questions are good ones, and yes they've been answered before; but like you've indicated it will take some digging around to put all the answers together. So, that is why we take the time to answer every question as if it were asked the first time. One day--don't hold your breath--all of the answers to all of the questions will be crossed referenced someplace on this earth. 1) Your Model 102's maximum RAM is 32K (29638 bytes... the OS takes some overhead). That's it! There ain't no more. And, any and all RAM banks, RAM disks, etc. are accessed separately or as temporary storage devices. I'm sending you a catalog with some base information about RAM. Read that, first. We'll take it from there. However, let me add, that your Model 102 and your 386 should be looked at differently. Large RAM-based processing is not what the 102 was designed for. 2) Random file access was not programmed into the Model 102--or the Model 100, 200, or NEC8201A; we support all these. The "only" random file programming ever made available was called RANDOM. RANDOM was developed by Traveling Software, enabling RANDOM file storage processing on the TPDD (Tandy Portable Disk Drive 100K format...not the TPDD2). We have RANDOM available on disk or ROM but you must have a TPDD. Hope this helps. Again, welcome aboard. -Rick-