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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Which amiga to buy?
Keywords: huh
Message-ID: <461@boing.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 12:07:00 GMT
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In article <12@xanadu.UUCP> tron1@xanadu.UUCP (Kenneth Jamieson) writes:
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>	BTW: The odds of actually finding a 1000 w/256k is almost NIL. I mean,
>I sold em for YEARS and never sold >1< without the expansion.
>

Back in the alpha/beta days of V1.2 the question came up about the
extra memory usage. We used to guarentee 100k available on a 256k
system when running basic.

However much of the new robustness required heavier memory usage by
the system utilities. Maybe as much as 16k more. This might put a few
games over the edge on 256k systems.

I made the comment that if there were any 256k systems left out there
we should send them a free 256k expansion card (maybe 10?). It would be much
less work, lead to fewer problems in the software. I don't think they
sent out any free 256k ram boards, but it is true we don't really
support the old 256k chip ram configuration anymore.
-- 
Dale Luck     Boing, Inc. {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale
Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably
don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers,
but I think the world would be a better place if they did.