AmigaOS3.5 (327/968)

From:John S. Burger
Date:13 Jan 2000 at 01:49:13
Subject:Re: Re: Memory Use with BB1

From: "John S. Burger" <jsburger@xmission.com>

On or about 12-Jan-00 05:01:31 Moses Wildermuth typed the following words
about "[amigaOS3_5] Re: Memory Use with BB1". My reply is thus...

Hi Moses,

MW> From: Moses Wildermuth <Mosespro@ecity.net>

MW> Hello Alex

MW> On 12-Jan-00, Alex wrote:
>> From: Alex <neurodancer@gmx.de>
>>
>> Hello Moses,
>>
>> you wrote on 12-Jan-00 about "[amigaOS3_5] Re: Memory Use with BB1":
>>
>>> I did not notice this because I also just added 8megs of fast to my
>>> system, but you are right, I lose about 9megs total fast ram just to
>>> startup! whoa. And I think you are right it did not do this with
>>> straight
>>> 3.5. With 3.1, I am sure it did not do that!
>>
>> With only rather small background patterns (180x180 I assume), my system
>> boots with a memory usage of 5.5mb RAM including some small tools
>> running. If I use a big 1024x768 background picture its about 2mb more
>> required, therefore I think that 9megs is not that shocking...
>>

MW> booting with no bsackdrops at all, just plain grey patterns leads to
MW> only a 2 meg savings. There is a big chunk going somewhere, and I
MW> would like to know where. thats all. Maybe from T.H.E.? I'll try
MW> that next.

In that case you are loosing 7 megs the same as I am. I only have one small
(53K) backdrop on my Dopus ( WB replacement mode ) screen.

I do not use T.H.E. so I doubt it is that. At least not in my case.

John



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