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-