Re: Running Apps. Off Expander
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Re: Running Apps. Off Expander
> I have been talking to many of my local friends who are very avare of
> hardware and software workings on computers (as am I) and we have come
> to a blank in our pool of knowledge. Is it possible to set up a data
> stream from the memory expander (By Mel Tsai)so that programs could be
> run directly from the expander? If not, why? The transfer rate is
> 5kb/S and so i dont think that the prossesor is too fast for the data
> stream...
> Perhaps one of you can fill me in.
No, the chip the expander uses works only in chunks of about 4k, so all
you can do is copy it over to the main memory anyways. There's no way
that the CPU can execute instructions that aren't in memory it can
access anyway.
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