[XCSSA] updating a kernel without rebooting

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Friday 18 August 2006 02:43 pm, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>
> The disk controller required 16K minimum, because TRSDOS itself took
> up more than 4K just to load.  Actually, Level II BASIC required 16K,
> so there was no such thing as a 4K L2 system.

Well then I guess it was originally a Model-I 4k that had been upgraded.. 
Because it had the "4k" bubble logo on the front of it.  More info here:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Hardware


> But if you were using a 16K machine, you would indeed have about 4K
> of RAM left after loading Disk Basic.  And I do remember having to
> open the drive doors before turning power off.  

Opening the doors was not "safe enough" evidently... so we removed the floppy 
all the way before shutting down.

> You would even see 
> all the select LEDs on all drives flash when that happened.

Yeah.. scary stuff.

Tweeks