Amiga 3000UX
Mike "Ford" Ditto
ford at amix.commodore.com
Wed Jan 16 11:30:16 AEST 1991
In article <388 at ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, pal at ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Philip Leverton) writes:
> Our system only had 5 Mb of memory
In article <1991Jan12.155932.18406 at cbnewsm.att.com> mls at cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon) writes:
> AT&T/USL recommends a minimum of 6 Megabytes for OPEN LOOK
Also, remember that experienced AmigaDos users (and probably Commodore
marketing types, too) think of a basic A3000 (4 Meg fast, 1 Meg chip)
as a "5 Meg" system, while Unix consideres this to be a "4 Meg"
system.
The Amiga's "chip" memory, to Unix, is like the frame buffer memory on
a graphics card. It is never used for the system's virtual memory.
It is used for floppy and sound DMA, copper instructions, and
(primarily) bitplane memory for the many virtual screens.
This might change in a future software release, since there will be
people with 4 Meg fast and 2 Meg chip, and they will need more system
memory and certainly wouldn't come close to using the whole 2 Meg chip
Ram.
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