Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!voder!pyramid!telam From: telam@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Thomas Elam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Is this the right place for "Idiot" articials Keywords: huh Message-ID: <140480@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 9 Jan 91 17:51:05 GMT Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com Reply-To: telam@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Thomas Elam) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 30 In article yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >Is this area to tell new (Non-amiga-ites) about amigas? >Or to ask "introductry" questions, like. > >What does MergeMem really do? It don't like my Adram board. >so that means CED can't have a 3+meg file bacause i >have 1.5 meg 'normal' mamory that can't merge with my 'public' memory. >and thus i can only have at the largest a 1.5 meg file. > >(Just wondering) You're precisely right in what you thought it's supposed to do. It will let you put a 3+ megabyte file in memory for such things as editing. The addresses of all the memory have to be contiguous, though. I think MergeMem is simple enough that if the addresses ("address space") used by the memory in the expansion product are contiguous to the addresses used or covered by the other Amiga memory, the memory will be merged into one piece. One of (or maybe the only) time MergeMem is needed, if I remember, is when you use a memory expansion device that does not "autoconfigure." Some memory expansion products don't. >-- >yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu Willis F York >---------------------------------------------- >Macintosh... Proof that a Person can use a Computer all day and still >not know ANYTHING about computers. Tom