> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, David Ledbury wrote: > > > > > I basically suggested this facility to this with Edwin originally. > > > > I understand there is a system record which has been reserved for that > sort of purpose? or the posibility for one? basically to load additional > sections ad-hock.... > > The technical manual describes a mechanism for allocating space in small > chunks, but I don't think the ROM provides any direct support for it, and > I don't know of many programs which use it properly. > > The major problem with it is that you have to write your code to be > entirely relocatable - not impossible, but quite a major pain (and likely > to produce slower code).
Nope, I was reffering to allocating a BDOS record onthe HD itself in order to pull in additional commands etc as overlays etc... Basically
