On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 21:04:33, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> >Tarquin Mills wrote: >>> "In true Sinclair style it was marketed long before it was ready, >>> resulting in initial shipments needing an extra ROM 'dongle' out the >>> back because they couldn't fit SuperBASIC into (I think) 32K." >>> >>> 48K. >> no 32K, 48K=32K ROMs+16K Kludge later 48K ROMs > >Hm, right, sorry for the confusion. I always thought that they added a >16kb rom to bring the total up to 64kb and later managed to change the >code to fit into 48kb. > >I didn't think anyone would even try to squeeze the whole of >QDOS/SuperBasic into 32kb... You are not worng Marcel. The std internal QL space has always been 48k. Minerva uses a 64k Eprom, with 48k code space. I do a version of Minerva that can fill the remaining 16k with ROM. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG