Edit for C128

Started by xlar54, January 06, 2008, 06:01 AM

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BigDumbDinosaur

QuoteWhat I would find especially cool (and often miss with editors also on newer machines) is an option only to load chunks of the file, so that you have a "window" of it in RAM ... handy for really large files (e.g. eBooks in plain text - idea: How about supporting Rich Text?). Would make sense to realize that with direct disk access, i.e. on sector level ... maybe the border to a disk editor is fuzzy
Floppy disk access is too slow to make a paged editor practical.  It was practical with the Lt. Kernal, though, and I had (long ago) a 64 mode editor that could handle files many times the size of available RAM.  It worked well because the Lt. Kernal could load a sector into RAM in about 10-12 milliseconds, depending on disk latency.
x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't need no stinking x86!