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From: french@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory
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Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 05:23:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 05:23:00 1985
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From: "french robert%d.mfenet"@LLL-MFE.ARPA

>wlbr!steve@caip.rutgers.edu 3 Dec 85 01:44:01 GMT
>
> >cc1@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
> >Did you say that this wonderful 512K to 8 meg system Can't Give Out MORE THAN
> >32K AT A TIME?
>...
>rokicki@Navajo.ARPA 5 Dec 85 19:42:24 GMT
>
>I just heard a rumor that the Amiga will not allocate a chunk of memory
>larger than 64K.

Well, unless I have a very strange Amiga, there is no WAY this is true.
I have made requests to malloc in excess of 128,000 bytes, and the system
has never burped.  Also, if you look at the program FRAGS on the Lattice
C disk, you will see that at times chunks in excess of 210K are available.

There is no reason to segment a totally unsegmented architecture.  Any
segmentation in the Amiga would just be arbitrarily assigned by the
people who wrote Intuition.

               Robert French
               French#Robert%d@LLL-MFE.ARPA