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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SimCity
Message-ID: <8181@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 89 23:21:50 GMT
References: <c4oq022n33DB01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <19432@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <19432@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>True.  As stated elsewhere, the problem has been isolated to the presence
>of "more than the usual" number of floppy drives on one's system.
>
>Number of drives.
>
>NOT lack of CHIP RAM.

Each floppy takes up chip ram for buffers (both AmigaDOS and trackdisk, I
believe).

Sorry Thad, you haven't eliminated chip ram (mis-)management as a possible
culprit.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell U.