Re: Looking for - Wordperfect

[Bryan Mason <bmason@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:05 AM Friday 10/10/2003, Bill Moy wrote:
> There is a ROM card that runs WordPerfect for the PoqetPC.  I believe it's 
> advantages are that it doesn't use RAM to run; -that it runs directly from 
> ROM.  I'm not 100% sure.

Most of the ROM cards for the Poqet PC do have programs that execute 
directly from ROM -- it was called "XIP" (eXecute In Place).  I can't 
remember off the top of my head whether or not WordPerfect was XIP. I know 
the Lotus products were, but I'm about 60% sure that WordPerfect did not.

>  I'm not sure about the issues of copying ROM programs

You can't copy programs that XIP on the Poqet PC onto other media.  The 
Poqet PC's hardware maps part of the ROM card into CPU-addressable memory, 
and you can't do that with a normal file.  Some PC Card readers have 
special programs to do a byte-by-byte read of the card to a file, and then 
will do a byte-by-byte write of the file to another card.  If you could 
find such a program, you could copy a 2 MB ROM card onto a 2 MB SRAM card, 
and the programs will XIP.

> Yes, there is PoqetTools for PC, I have it somewhere.  I will need to find 
> it.  Perhaps Sven wouldn't mind setting up these files on his site, I'm 
> pretty sure it's not on Bryan Mason's site because of release 
> issues.  Does software become public domain if abandoned?  Bryan, is this 
> still a concern?

Ummmm, yeah, just a little.  I tend to be anal about these sorts of things, 
and since I still work for Fujitsu, I'd like to continue to be anal.  I've 
always had the feeling that I was walking a fine line running the Poqet PC 
Web site, so I'd rather play it safe for now.

-- Bryan
<http://www.bmason.com/PoqetPC/>