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- From: darkrain@mindvox.phantom.com (Swiftshadow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas and Whiners....
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 01:27:17 GMT
- Organization: Phantom Access Technologies, Inc. / MindVox
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- Randy Vice (damocles@nostromo.gate.net) wrote:
- : On Mon 5-Feb-1996 2:19p, Nick Christie wrote:
- : NC> Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike) wrote:
- : NC> >Softkicking 2.04 costs 0$
-
- : NC> Not quite. It costs 512K of RAM, and I suspect many people
- : NC> still using AmigaOS 1.3 will have only 512K or 1MB RAM installed,
- : NC> making soft-kicking 2.04 either impossible or impractical.
-
- : NC> Then there's the on-disk 2.04 software. A soft-kicked system
- : NC> won't get far when an application asks for the commodities
- : NC> library.
-
- : Question, does softkicking WB cost FAST RAM or Chip RAM?
-
- I think the programs that softkick ask for MEM_PUBLIC, meaning they'll
- take what they can get, starting with Fast Ram and then moving on to Chip
- Ram. I don't think you want the ROM image in Chip RAM. It would probably be
- slower than reading the ROM straight off. One of the uses of running on a
- ROM image system is to speed up some Kickstart functions. So unless
- you're just softkicking to get a new OS revision, don't put the ROM image
- in Chip Ram.
-
- : : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- : :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- : :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
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- Swiftshadow
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