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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Memory Expansion Question
Message-ID: <296@mks.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 20:15:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.296
Posted: Wed Sep  2 20:15:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 03:12:23 EDT
References: <6670@pur-ee.UUCP> <1095@water.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 18
Summary: pgm start times are shortened

In article <1095@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
> .... "DoubleThink Plus" which, they said, will take a 520 to
> 2.5 megabytes and take a 1040 or upgraded 520 to 3 megabytes.
> ....    The only negative mentioned by the
> article was that booting the system and loading programs take longer,
> about 10 seconds per accessory...  and for loading programs, add 15 to
> 30 seconds.

I noticed the longer time required to start programs when I upgraded
my 520 to 1 meg. According to stuff I have read, including from Atari,
this is because someone (TOS?) clears memory when a program is loaded,
and there is now more to clear. Atari noticed it when they started
contemplating the Megas, so the new ROMs have improved code for this.
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