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From: steve@wlbr.UUCP (Steve Childress)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k
Subject: OS9 Things
Message-ID: <367@wlbr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 14:51:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 14:51:59 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:02:49 EDT
Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA
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Keywords: OS9 CoCo
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For the fellow trying to run a large program on a CoCo ...
     I suggest that:
	1) Put a "LOAD LOAD" in your startup file... this is probably
	   why you could load then run.
	2) When you want to run a large program, use the command:

		ex pathname

	   because this discards the current shell before running the
	   program ... this releases about 4 pages of memory.
	3) Be aware that memory fragmentation occurs in OS9 (8-bit)...
	   Do a "MFREE" just after booting OS9 and again after running
	   several different programs. If you see several small (< 3)
	   regions of memory, you have a fragmentation situation. This
	   can be cleared by rebooting.


On the issue of why OS9 was not selected by Commodore or Atari ...

In a posting done a couple of weeks ago, I speculated that the manufacturers
elected to do the O/S's in-house to achieve lower recurring costs. Does anyone
else have a speculation?

HEY MICROWARE!!! Where the *#@!$#$@ are your news releases, user-feedback
solicitations, COMPUSERVE-relays, etc? There could be a goodly-sized
group of people here on USENET (and possibly ARPANET).

		Regards,
			Steve Childress
			Eaton IMS    R&D Group MS 43 
			31717 La Tienda Drive
			Westlake Village,  CA    91360
			(818) 889-2211 X2148
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