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From: csuwk@warwick.ac.uk (Ade Lovett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fastmemfirst
Message-ID: <3386@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Aug 89 09:11:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: phoenix@ms.uky.edu's message of 5 Aug 89 21:43:29 GMT

In article <12358@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>In article <488@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>>I wonder how many A500's have a full meg of memory.  The impression I get is
>>that most of the A500's in the home have only 512K and 1 floppy.  Accurate
>>numbers would have to come from Commodore, since polling the net would
>>produce biased results.  (The typical net-news reader is more likely to
>>expand their system than the typical home computer user.)
>
>Maybe so, but I know a lot of A500 owners (and am one myself) - and I know
>of only one A500 which has NOT been expanded past base configuration. The most
>popular two upgrade paths are a second floppy or memory; I've done both, as have
>several others I know. The more popular upgrade among those who have only done
>one is getting up to 1 meg RAM.

Too right. If you're going to use your A500 for anything other than
playing games, then a second floppy is a must unless you want to
suffer from Mac-elbow :-) and the extra 1/2Meg is almost as vital when
you have lots of tasks running (although I wouldn't recommend the A501
- in the UK at least there are a lot of similar boards around which
also have an easily accessibly enable/disable switch on them - some
much nicer than software hacks when you want to run programs that
don't like the extra memory.

Mind you, when the ECS comes out, everything will be ok, won't it???
:-)

aDe