/OFFOK, but this simplifies the answer of Sdw's question to "not at all, or maybe in some botched way". I can't see enough resources in the EP that would enable doing under EXOS what he'd like to do. But proving me wrong is welcome anytime. I only offered a theory about a different solution that seems to be feasible, although it goes against the beauty of the EXOS system.
Well, yes. Discussing taste is an endless exercise in futility.
My point about emulators generically was that if we start arbitrarily omitting parts of these obsolete systems we may shortly arrive to using emulators only, or giving it up altogether. And as the man said himself:/ON
I see. Not the same, but it's again *my* taste
For me the computer is over at its case. Floppy disk etc, not the part of the computer, so can be replaced. Memory expansion is more tightly integrated part of the system though, than "only" the storage solution (OK, that is a bit "because I think this way" kind of statement, but anyway ...). However even that is a kinda odd in case of EP. Not in a negative way ... Just think about C64 again, which was not so much designed to have more memory, and kinda awkward solutions are needed. EP has the clean design of 4Mbyte address space "built-in" and "already" and even you should not assume "where is the RAM" (which segment, I mean, surely the 64K VRAM can be treated as "always there"), since even 128K can be constructed (even when you would think, EP128 has 128K a same way, that's not true, or at least not always!) using different segment numbers. So even this is a thing, you should rely on OS, to allocate RAM, and not just start reading/writing, you think RAM is. So I just wanted to note, that EP has the "magical" feeling, that it's more versatile compared to other 8 bit micros, that can cause even problems, if you are about using the hardware directly. In same cases, at least
But yes, the 128K RAM stuff maybe a bit extreme idea (but not so much, there are EP64s expanded to 128, maybe also EXOS replaced, so they are "almost EP128" but maybe not the same memory segment layout ... EXOS - I think - wouldn't have problem with this, but you will, if you think RAM should be there as you think), the question of storage is a more common "problem" at least in this topic.
But again: I would love to see some tricks using WD177x, demo effect etc, together