AmigaOS3.5 (680/968)

From:Hawkmoon
Date:24 Jan 2000 at 19:45:12
Subject:Re: Re: Memory usage

From: Hawkmoon@castle-brass.co.uk

Greetings Kolbj�rn Barmen, on 24-Jan-00 05:34:30 you scribed the following:-
KB> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kolbj=F8rn_Barmen?= <kolla@nvg.ntnu.no>

KB> On 23 Jan 2000, John S. Burger wrote:

>> Actually, if I remember correctly it was I that started this thread.
>> The bottom line is that something is different in Fast memory usage
>> from 3.1 to
>> 3.5. Booting with the same startup in both 3.1 and 3.5 results in 3.5
>> using
>> 2-3 megs more Fast RAM than 3.1. Weather or not this is a program being
>> run in startup that is not fully compatible with 3.5 or 3.5 itself is
>> what needs to be answered.

KB> Just to get you going, I have 800-900kB you can start with, if
KB> compare old OS3.1 libs/resources with new OS3.5 libs, I bet you can
KB> get this list growing.

KB> ROM update - 100kB (at least, dont know how much is used to
KB> "run" it) workbench.library - 200kB icon.library - 50kB
KB> classes/datatypes - 500kB (roughly 500k more than in OS3.1)

The ROM update won't use the full size as there is support in there for
different flavour amigas and only the patches specific to your machine will
be patched into the system.

The 500Kb of datatypes shouldn't all be loaded into RAM as resident, so
that will remove that as a possible cause.



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