It should be quite possible to have the OS decompress itself out of ROM 
into RAM. Many other OS's
including vXworks and RTEMS have this option.

Cheers
Malcolm


Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>This is more for the SMSQE.users amongst us, which use it on a Q40/60 .
>
>The current version of SMSQE for the Qx0 is about 250 KB long.
>
>It was suggested to me that the home thing should be incorporated into SMSQE, 
>which will make SMSQE for the Qx0 about 254 KB long.
>
>We are now approaching very closely the 256 KB limit which the current ROMs 
>for the Qx0 can handle. The other versions of SMSQE don't have that problem, 
>since they are always loaded into RAM anyway.
>
>  
>
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