On Jun 2, 2016 7:36 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > * I can neither buy nor make my own rex today. (or can I?)
> >
>
> True.
>
> > * Nor can I safely predict that anyone else could a few years from now.
> > Unless that changes, I don't care to spend time and energy figuring out
cool
> > stuff that depends on it.
> >
>
> Well you're new here. I consider it temporary unavailability. Consider
> that the reason it is currently unavailable is because most of the
> people that wanted one bought one and the supply ran out.
>
> But ok. You can't get one short of buying one second hand.
>
> > * rex is incompatible with every 2nd thing I want to play with, so even
if I
> > had a rex, I would still have to remove it half the time, and so there
> > remains a need for a self programmable rom that works like the original
rom
> > and isn't incompatible with anything.
> >
>
> Where did you get that idea?
>
> You can install it and just leave it in. That's the whole idea The opt
> rom socket is for ... opt roms. Among other things, REX lets you
> software switch between option roms. It supports every optrom out
> there.
>
> So... confused.
>
> -- John.

The newest rex now has the option to switch between main system roms not
just option roms. And you can program them in-place with software, no
external programmer.

... wait, your own name appears right on the rex wiki page, on which also
appears the section on incompatibility.

-- 
bkw

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