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From: joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Mysterious missing RAM in 1000TL
Keywords: RAM, expansion, 1000TL
Message-ID: <257337AA.525D@rpi.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 01:58:01 GMT
References: <1989Nov25.052630.7373@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <1989Nov25.052630.7373@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> mflawson@uokmax.UUCP (Michael F Lawson) writes:
>I was recently dismayed to find that 64k in my 1000TL seems to be 'missing'.
>In other words, only ~576k is reported by DOS, when I am supposed to have
>  The only idea I have is that
>the Tandy custom video chip is eating up some memory.  Will the 128k upgrade
>remove this problem?  If not, it seems this computer is not truly PC-compatible.
>
>
The video subsystem steals the motherboard RAM for its own buffers.
On other PC's these buffers are on the CGA card and indepependant of the
640K of base memory.  Yes, you will need the upgrade, But what software
needs that much space to run?

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