From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 14:20:09 PST
Il me semble que le 2/3/03 à 13:48 -0500, Laurent Daudelin nous racontait:
> > thats why i thought about adding say ethernet, wireless and irda=20
> > drivers. isnt there still some room in the rom? i mean the few megs on=20=
>
>How about writing a system patch that would contain those extensions? Then,
>whenever you do a hard reset, you wouldn't have to reload those extensions.
Well.
First, I never extended the size of the system patch. I killed two
Newtons when I last tried it.
Second, all these extensions are pretty big. I could reduce the
TCP/IP dock extension's size, but you need NIE and Ethernet card
drivers. In fact, the smallest subset would be Lantern (Newton
Devices) and the card drivers.
NewtonDevices itself is 84 KB. So it means at least 84 KB less of
RAM. Not sure everyone will want this.
Paul
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