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From: JOSEPH@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus
Message-ID: <17639@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 16:33:31 GMT
References: <1567@ultb.UUCP> <779@dsacg2.UUCP> <17458@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <868@uwm.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <868@uwm.edu>, mamba@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul A Deisinger) writes:
> In article <17458@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> JOSEPH@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>In article <779@dsacg2.UUCP>, nor1675@dsacg2.UUCP (Michael Figg) writes:
>>> The quick and easy (very easy) way to find out is just to run 'Avail' (a
>>> standard AmigaDOS command) and see how much Chip ram you have. 
>> Sure. However, this will not work with the standard A500. 
>> The original poster didn't mention the machine he(she) is having.
>> Tomi
> 
> Really?
> 
> Well, I'm on a 'standard' A500 and through the wonders of multitasking I just
> popped to my shell and did that, and lo and behold, it works.  Gee, I think I'll
> try out "snap", here goes:
> 
> WB 1.3:> avail                               
> Type  Available    In-Use   Maximum   Largest
> chip     316200    207032    523232    304896
> fast       2056    514832    516888       608
> total    318256    721864   1040120    304896

 I didn't mean that the AVAIL command will not work on 'standard A500' ( the
 A500 which comes with 512K). My point is that you cannot find out whether the
 new Agnes is there or not just by typing AVAIL, when all you got is 512K of
 RAM. Now even if you add the expansion module to the A500, the AVAIL will
 not show 1M chip RAM. You have to reset some internal switch to make use 
 of extra chip RAM.
 
 * You cannot tell the presence of new Agnes in A500 without opening the 
   unit, unless the documentation says so. *
 Tomi