From: Finn Thain (fthain_at_telegraphics.com.au)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 02:53:27 PST
> I think several users have tried partitions larger than 64 MB.
> For the moment, ATA Support only lets you create up to 4 partitions.
> The system actually doesn't let me have more than 4 stores mounted
> per card unless I cook an even dirtier hack.
>
> > Each of those partitions will require heap for the Newton to know it's
> >there.
On the subject of dirty hacks, if the ARM chip has an MMU (?), how about a
heap doubler along the lines of Connectix RamDoubler? Or, even better, ATA
backed VM?
Now that I think about it, convincing the OS that real memory was larger
than physical memory would probably be very difficult after it booted. By
the time execution left the ROM code it may be too late?
--Finn
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