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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: System 2.0 on A500's
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Date: 27 Nov 90 15:35:01 GMT
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> The A500 1 Meg CHIP modification will void your warranty, as of
>today. This is because some A500 it works others it doesn't. Also
>make sure you have some FAST memory available otherwise you'll
>get in trouble when something wants to put it's buffers into FAST
>memory. (ala Hard Drives.)

	Disk drives, and I would guess (?) hard drives, place
their buffers exclusively in chip ram, not fast ram. There are
some stupid programs which require fastram, but don't forget that
512K A500s have none and work just fine.


	-- Ethan

	Woody Allen on Los Angeles:

	"I mean, who would want to live in a place where the only
cultural advantage is that you can turn right on a red light?"