Date   : Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:58:50 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: Warning: Sad case on list!

In article <060306015523@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:

[snip]

> > The 32016 2P doesn't do a RAM check.. In fact I can't think of any Acorn
> > machine that does, can I? The Atom doesn't. I had to write my own. its
>  
> The BBC does. It tries to clear RAM from 1K up to 32K and if
> there's only 16K or RAM, then the pointer to memory being cleared
> gets cleared itself.

Though that's not really doing a RAM "check", more just probing to find out
how much there is. There could be all manner of refresh or data integrity
problems along the way, the Archimedes goes further and flashes the border
colour if an error is found,
Sprow.