georgevl wrote:Thanks for the info tendrive. I appreciate your comment that "it is an TT ONE XL unit limitation".
1. I could not believe that TT spends the unit's resources (the memory in this case) in such a foolish way. To spend so much memory to load twice the same thing is unbelievable (and UNACCEPTABLE to me!!!)


2. I will explain to my friend that (the owner of the TT unit) that he has to buy SEVERAL SD cards to load other MAPs AND THE PROGRAM also!!
3. Can he buy a big SDHC (say 8GB) and load the program ONCE in it and put several maps in the same SDHC card?

1. I don't understand why you think memory is being wasted. A navcore is only 20 to 40 MBs.
2. Several cards are not necessary.
3. Yes. Say even a 16GB card.

tendriver wrote:1. I don't understand why you think memory is being wasted. A navcore is only 20 to 40 MBs.

Thanks for the info. Probably you are one of the youngsters who do not know what "DOS" is .... lol
On the contrary I do not understand why you say 20-40 Mbs is a small amount of memory to waste, I will give you two examples:
a) I have a GARMIN (the TT unit belongs to a good friend and respective hacking is done for a friend of mine) Recently they published the EU-maps JUST above the 2GB, so I cannot use my 2GB SD cards which I have - I can delete some countries of course and squeeze it down - but they made NO effort (I believe) AT ALL to OPTIMIZE it.
b) Every time Microsoft makes a new version of s/w (take office for example) you need a new processor and MORE MEMORY which (sometimes your old machine cannot support) (not to mention that they add a few useless things or improve only the interface) I HATE THIS!!! Why? I have more than 10 computers at home (different generations!!!)
My first computer was an APPLE IIe w/64k (I repeat 64k) RAM (Cost 3000 US$ w/printer -Year 1984, where you born then?) and my 1st PC was a PC-XT unit w/640Kb RAM. My first programs were written and developed on this XT Unit. I had to spend a lot of time to OPTIMIZE my programs within my limited resources (even changing procedures into ASSEMBLY language to save SPACE (RAM) and INCREASE speed). Searching for the best/optimum compiler (and not INTERPRETER) was a continuous effort. Nowadays you have nice IDEs which require a ... MAINFRAME in your PC to run it (Try to run an MS-ACCESS application). Now they develop or upgrade s/w w/o caring about your old h/w To run a new program "acceptably" you must have the top-of -line h/w. Of course electronics are cheaper now but still there is no "sense of economy" on this planet called Earth. Sooner or later we will pay for this and we will pay TOO much and we will be very sorry for what we have done.
Sorry, but I am an old guy, coming from the previous generation (or from another planet) and I cannot accept this wasting of resources.

I hope you are not angry w/me but I have lived a whole life w/limited resources...and spent A LOT OF MONEY on these things ... hahaha - ;-)
Best regards and sincerely THANK YOU

George

PS I apologize to the forum for the above long, personal and maybe useless comment!!!

georgevl wrote:Can he buy a big SDHC (say 8GB) and load the program ONCE and several maps in the same SDHC card?

Yes! I have 4 countries loaded in my SDHC card. You can just switch maps anytime in the menu.

georgevl wrote:Btw, Are you Greek Lemoni? ;-)
GeorgeInParis/GiwrgosStoParisi

Yes I am!
LemoniInAustralia/LemoniStinAustralia

@ georgevl,

At your old age, you must be well versed in Cobol & Fortran.

@ Tendrive

You mean COBOL (initial release in 1959, according to Wikipedia) not COBALT (initial release in 2009, according to Wikipedia) - LOL
I am just "a few months" younger!!! ;-) [<- Even my smilies are Old-Fashioned]
Regards and many thanks for the help

lemoni wrote:Yes I am!
LemoniInAustralia/LemoniStinAustralia

Glad to hear that ;-)

georgevl wrote:You mean COBOL (initial release in 1959, according to Wikipedia) not COBALT

Pardon my typo error. So you are well versed & have spent hours sitting at a key punch machine.