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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

2747.0. "Do I still have 521K?" by GVA05::BERGMANS () Wed Jul 19 1989 15:45

    My Amiga 500 had to go back a number of times for power supply
    failures.
    
    It now had to go back for disk failures and I got it in return
    recently.
    
    It now seems to work OK but I have the impression that there is
    something wrong with the memmory size.
    
    I think I remember that I was doing disk copies (with copiers like
    Marauder, Quicknible etc..) in about two swaps (source and target
    disk).
    
    I now have to do seven swaps, one every nine tracks.
    
    I am dreaming about the past, or does my machine not recognize its
    512 K memory?
    
    Is there a command that allows me to check the accessible memory size?
    
    Regards
    
    
                                                             
    
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2747.1workbench tells you automaticallySAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterWed Jul 19 1989 16:453
    The workbench screen shows the amount of available memory on the top
    banner.
        John Sauter
2747.2LEDS::ACCIARDIWed Jul 19 1989 16:579
    
    If you've upgraded to the v1.3 system software, there is a command
    called 'AVAIL' in the c: directory that returns the amount of chip and
    fast ram available, and also reports the largest contiguous block.
    
    By the way, a non-interlaced WB screen and two floppies will
    automatically eat about 90+ Kbytes of chip ram.  
    
    Ed.