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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 & A-TALK questions
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Date: 27 Dec 90 19:45:34 GMT
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In <4601@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, masaru@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai) writes:
>
>Situation:
>  I bought A-Talk ||| + Supra 2400 MNP for communination, and found that
>  A-Talk wouldn't open up dialog boxes and/or menus quite often, and I found
>  the title bar of WorkBench 2.0 saying that I had only a few KILO FAST RAM.
>  When it came to worst, I was obliged to reboot by old Vulcan nerve pinch...
>
>Questiions:
>  - Has anyone out there had similar experience described above ? I am not
>  sure which is responsible for such mischievous behaviour.

Yes. Though I haven't run into it with Atalk in particular, it is true that
some programs will not run when presented with too little ofa a particular type
of memory (CHIP or FAST)/

>  - What is the usage of FAST RAM in WorkBench 2.0 ?  Avail tells me I have 
>  only half MEG for FAST RAM.  I called up my shop, and the guy said missing
>  half is used for 512K ROM which has not been installed yet for some reason.
>  I can't believe his explanation because it should have been the first item 
>  in the important notice which my package came with.

Believe it. Until 2.0 comes out in ROM, 512K will be eaten by the ROM contents.

>  - What is the safest way to reboot Amiga ? It surely has a set of buffers
>  for disk drives, but I couldn't find any sync and even shutdown commands
>  which are common in unix. Multitasking is a fun, but I hate to wish 
>  disks to keep sleeping. 

Yes, it has buffers for the disk drives. They are flushed to the disk, if
required, after 3 seconds of inactivity.

>Minor Wishes: 
>  I hope that they come true by next Xmas.
>	- memory protected AmigaDOS

Not likely. Extremely unlikely. Hmm... how about 'No'.

>  	- foolproof shutdown procedure

Wait 3 seconds after the last write operation finshes. You will, if you are
watching, see a short flash from the drive activity light. After this it is
safe to shut down, reboot, etc.

>	- exact documentation (i.e. setenv functionalities)

The A3000 docs are quite good. What is it you don't understand about their
explanation of SetEnv?

-larry

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