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From: dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: My A3000/25/50 seems a bit slow... Why?
Message-ID: <1991May9.085003.20421@cs.umu.se>
Date: 9 May 91 08:50:03 GMT
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In article <8934@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>In article <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:
>>
>>  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.
>
>How much memory do you presently have in it?  If you have just the 2
>megabytes that came with it, that's the reason.  Between Kickstart
>(512K) and Workbench (maybe 200K), there's not much fast memory left,
>so your programs run out of chip memory.  Programs run MUCH slower
>from chip memory on the 3000, since fast memory on the motherboard is
>right on the CPU bus.
>
Is this because CHIP-ram is busy with other things than running programs
or is the CHIP ram clocked at 3.58 Mhz even on a 3000??

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