Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard From: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: More than 4 Meg ?? Message-ID: <1991Jun06.152136.3627@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 6 Jun 91 15:21:36 GMT References: <1991Jun4.112631.10649@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1991Jun6.104706.24529@cs.nott.ac.uk> Organization: Actrix Networks Lines: 26 In article <1991Jun6.104706.24529@cs.nott.ac.uk> dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer) writes: > In article gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: > >[stuff about 'what to do with >4meg' deleted] > >Try CScheme --- it takes 2.5 Mb (itself!) just to see the intro text. If you > >actually want to *do* anything (even in 4Mb) you have to forget about MGR, et > >al. and run it direct from the DeskTop (gasp). > > I think GNU SmallTalk is similar. It does seem strange that Atari limited the > machine like this. Surely it wouldn't have been much more work to allow the > MMU to address the full 16 meg that the 68k can? At least it's better than > the Amiga A500 (1 meg max!). > -- > /* 'Grave' Dave Gymer --------- Internet: dpg@Cs.Nott.AC.UK *\ > +* 42 St Marys Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England *+ > +* Olivier's Law: "Experience is something you don't get *+ > \*-------------------------- until just after you need it." */ There was some thing posted here , was it last year from a German chap, that could bank switch the rams to give , was it 6-8 megs, but I could be wrong, I could still have the Posing stuck on a follopy some where, if I remember gave details on how to do it. but a still can't see how you can refresh the rams. -- *** Roger W. Sheppard * Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz *** *** 85 Donovan Rd * * At least I don't Flicker, not *** *** Kapiti New Zealand.. * like a dying light globe. ! ***