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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wishlist (practical)
Keywords: 1.4, copy
Message-ID: <14569@gryphon.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 89 06:19:51 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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[Jdows stuff about bitmaps deleted]

As long as we are talking about main memory utilization for
hard drives, I have an observation.

Now, note that what information I have is second hand, and none
of it may be accurate.

I understand that every mounted partition uses 32K or chip RAM.

(Nota again that I use supramount, not a mountlist. I'm lazy)

I understand that this is for track buffering.

Well, 96K is still a lot of memory, for us poor slobs
with ``only 1 megabyte'' (did I really say that ?)
so I'd be more than willing to let them share a single
track buffer. I'd certainly be willing to trade off the
performence loss to get the memory back.
-- 
       ``Parents who have children, have children who have children''
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