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From: mflawson@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Michael F Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Mysterious missing RAM in 1000TL
Summary: Is Radio Shack ripping me off?
Keywords: RAM, expansion, 1000TL
Message-ID: <1989Nov25.052630.7373@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 89 05:26:30 GMT
Expires: 12/18/89
Sender: mflawson@uokmax.uucp
Reply-To: mflawson@uokmax.UUCP (Michael F Lawson)
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Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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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
640k.  Other friends of mine (with other non-Tandy 640k machines) are running
the same software I am, and only I am getting 'Out of Memory' errors.  I am
not running any other in-memory programs that I know of (what about Deskmate?).

Does anyone know what is going on here?   I set up FILES and BUFFERS to the
minimum amounts, but that only got me a few k.  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.

Thanks for any info,

Mike Lawson
mflawson@uokmax.uucp