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In article <1990Aug29.203331.25529@agora.uucp>, billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
> In article <1990Aug28.192905.13813@nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmt.edu (Dino Khoe) writes:
> :My friend recently bought an A3000 and upon setting it up and doing an
> :avail, it showed the maximum FAST ram to be 512K!  So we checked the chips
> 
> 	On the EPROM versions of the 3000 (read that, any 3000 before 2.0
> has been installed as a ROM) the Kickstart is loaded into memory and
> executed from there. That makes it easy for you to update differing versions

I just had the same unpleasant surprise as Mr. Khoe. I booted up a
2 Meg A3000 from the system so thoughtfully preloaded on the hard
disk by C= and found the following :
    866... bytes of graphics ram available out of 1 Meg = 1,048,576
bytes installed. So about 162,000 bytes of graphics memory are being
used by the system. I assume this is for the system neucleus and the
graphics screens.
BUT only 220... bytes of other (fast) ram available out of 1 Meg fast
ram installed ???
Mr. Seymores posting and one by Mr. Uszumn explain where 512K of the
fast ram has disappeared to. The RAM: disk accounts for another 16K.
But what's eating up the remaining 270K ??
On my 512K A1000, after loading up about 60K of my C directory to RAM:
and getting rid of WB, Is still have about 280,000 bytes available in
cli mode.
Also the A3000 is one of those that has a 50 Meg hard disk. (Again
praises to C= for their generosity). It comes with two partitions
5 megMEGeg. for SYS: and 41 Meg for WWRK: But where are the remaining 5
or so Megs?? On my IBM PS/2 the 40 Meg. hard drive has 40 Meg.
available for me to use.
I hope at least that the 4 Meg. of expansion ram due to be added
to the A3000 will all be available.

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