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From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: My A3000/25/50 seems a bit slow... Why?
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Date: 8 May 91 07:33:09 GMT
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In article <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:
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>  I just bought my Amiga 3000 25MHZ 50MB, and everything seems to be working
>great.  The only thing is that I was expecting many program to be BLAZINGly
>fast.  It seems to be a bit on the slow side, especially for a 25MHZ version.
>  Also, is DPaint III written to take advantage of the A3000's power?  The
>DPaint III at the store seemed MUCH faster than DPaint II here on my 3000.

One word sums up your problem: RAM.  With Kickstart sucking up 1/2
meg of fast ram, and Workbench and any utilities you run taking up 
the other 1/2 meg, you have no fast ram left.  I highly recomend
that you add 4 megs worth of 1Mx4 SC ZIPS.  The speed increase is
amazing.

Rick

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