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From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus
Message-ID: <2085@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 12 Nov 89 08:51:33 GMT
References: <1567@ultb.UUCP> <779@dsacg2.UUCP> <17458@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <868@uwm.edu>
Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan)
Organization: Media Specialties LTD
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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
:WB 1.3>  
: 
: Nifty.
: PD

I think what Joseph meant was an "Unexpanded A500."  If the machine had
only 512K total memory with a FAT Agnus, the avail would still show less
than the 1K chip mem.

Oh, and SNAP is very nifty.  Only drawback is that it won't insert a leading
character for quotes like snipit would. :-( This MUST be fixed.

Joel