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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Memory speed report, RS Data System
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 15:54:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 15:54:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Sep 18 14:54:00 1986


>[Listen up CBM - the only ergonomically bad
>thing I've found about the Amiga is that there IS NOT a good place to
>put the second drive. It HAS to be on the right side of the box, where
>it interferes with the mouse cable].
	my second drive lives happily _on top_ of the box, to the
right of the monitor.  it has to be rotated 90 degrees to fit there,
but i don't mind that.

>At the same time, they give me a
>cute little program that opens a one-gadget window, and will upon
>request allocate or free all available fast memory (not sure what it
>does if more fast memory becomes free after it thinks it's got it all.
>Haven't tried it).
>...
>MemGrab is something that's nearly trivial, and something like
>it should come with every memory expansion, at least until everyone
>starts writing code that works with fast memory.
	even better is the "fixhunk" that came with my aMEGA.  this
little program scans an amiga binary making a note of which hunks
are DATA or BSS, and modifies the hunk_header size entries for those
hunks to specify CHIP memory loading.  it would be easy to extend this
concept to make it interactive, to allow you to use trial-and-error to
identify exactly which data hunks _need_ to be in CHIP ram.  as-is,
you can avoid wasting CHIP ram on code hunks.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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