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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 512K expansion for A500
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Date: 4 Apr 88 04:54:30 GMT
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In article <684@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
>How about some clever code to swap unseen screen bitmaps to/from FAST
>memory??  I've been toying around with this idea for a few weeks
>now.  I haven't really spent the time to work thru the problem completely,
>but I can imagine this as a potential solution to the CHIP mem crunch.

Actually this would be an excellent idea but some of the ways you can 'expose'
screens/windows in several ways. Things like clicking on the screen front/back
gadgets, or dragging down the screen. One thing that would work would be to
make the programs in question able to free up chip memory when they are 
'iconified' and several people have made available packages that do something
like this. 

So maybe this is a suggestion to you budding program developers, if you make
this an option (Go Quiescent and free chip ram) then your programs will be
in more demand. Fragmentation can still be a problem.

--Chuck McManis
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