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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 6 Jun 91 17:45:01 GMT
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logan@netxcom.netx.com (Jim Logan) writes:
>Actually, I hope that when they come out with the ROMs, they
>allow you to copy the code into RAM.  I believe that the access
>time of ROM is much slower than RAM, and on a 3000UXD I have lots
>of memory to spare.  I've never run an application that utilized
>more than 2MB of memory.   

You mean you only run ONE application at a time???? that's the whole point of
large amounts of memory on the Amiga, although high Data items like full 24
bit manipulation use alot of memory, i'd say more people use that ram to run
more programs at once.

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