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From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Subject: Re:   Mike Farren Tutorial.
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.053459.23762@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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References: <1991Apr2.002244.11549@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <18ec731b.ARN0f5b@icoast.UUCP> <1991Apr7.150455.2256@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 05:34:59 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
> I just fired up my Amiga 1000, Workbench 1.3.2. Hit ^D to abort loading,
> and typed "avail".
>
> Type	Available	In-use		Maximum		Largest
> chip	421216		94648		515864		420328
> fast	0		0		0		0
> total	421216		94648		515864		420328
>
> OK, the O/S is using a total of 94648. The workbench screen is overscanned,
> about 704 by 216. 76032 bytes for that, 1964 for "avail", leaves 16652 bytes
> used by all system data structures, interrupt vectors, dynamic data used
> by "avail", etc.

I once forgot to plug any memory (even the 256K expansion) into my Amiga
1000 when I took it apart.  For some reason, my compiles wouldn't
work under make, but would if I typed them in by hand (Manx 3.6).
Very perplexing...

But Peter, workbench is only 2 bitplanes... that's 38016 bytes, so the
O.S., sans WB screen, is 54668 bytes.  Still pretty damn small!
-- 
	-Colin