Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FastMemFirst (was Re: 2090 HDdisk.device)
Message-ID: <4299@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 15:21:44 GMT
References: <624@stcns3.stc.oz>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <624@stcns3.stc.oz>, mikb@stcns3.stc.oz (Mike Benson) says:

> Pardon?  I just looked at my Workbench disk (C= P/N 380724-07) that came with
> my (very early - 512K motherboard) A2000.  The only tool that refers to
> fastmem is "NoFastMem".  Anyone possessed of wisdom on this issue care to
> comment?

It was originally called "SlowMemLast".  Then someone decided that "SlowMem"
sounded bad, so they renamed it "FastMemFirst".  In any case, what it does
is make the $C00000 memory the last "FAST" tagged memory list to be used by
the OS.  Which means, if you have other FAST memory, your system will go
faster, since that other FAST memory isn't subject to custom chip contention.

> | Mike Benson                      | ACS:  mikb@stcns3.stc.OZ.AU	      |
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