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From: kaye@FSCORE.dec.com (Mark Kaye - He who dies with the most toys - is dead!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What is the program Patch2090?
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Date: 5 Oct 89 23:48:30 GMT
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In article <5660062@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>, charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes...
>there is one line in the s:startup-sequence which I don't understand.
>	runback c:patch2090a
>Naturally I don't have the docs files.  Can you (anybody) tell me what
>patch2090 does?  Where does it come from?  Is it safe?

This pgm appeared in 1 of the Amiga magazines. It limits the DMA xfers
to a smaller size (defined in mountlist) when it detects that a 4-color 
hi-res screen is being displayed - this normally caused the DMA device to
crash i think (no more bus for the DMA xfers). It req'd some device
info to start up - i don't have my docs handy...(in AmigoTimes #5 maybe)
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