Just guessing but the remaining space might be a copy buffer. Not that that should be necessary. TINY/TEENY is only about 800 bytes and it is able to be manipulate the file system and communicate over tpdd protocol.
It might be something else though. Maybe it coexists with another utlity. -- John. On Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 3:25 PM Kurt McCullum <ku...@fastmail.com wrote: > Has anybody played with the Bank Accessor program that comes with the > personal application kit? I'm looking for some information specific to > memory usage. > > When I load the program it works as stated. I can access files across all > three banks from BASIC by using the prefix like this: > > OPEN "BNK2:DATA.DO" for input as #1 > > Pretty cool to break through the 32k barrier in this way. But the downside > is that I loose 10k just loading the program. It's a tiny program at only > 1286 bytes but for some reason it loads at 53248 to 54528. That's somewhat > of a deal killer for me since it takes my memory from 28k to 17k. > > So if you have any insights I'd love to hear them. If it can be modified > to load higher in memory I can see it as something rather useful. > > Kurt >
