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In article <4270@cbmvax.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
=Currently, since all CHIP mem is mapped in 1st meg of address space,
=ignoring the pieces Exec removes from the memlists at the start and 
=end for its own devious purposes, the first 1/2 meg of CHIP is from
=$0 to $7FFFF, and the second 1/2 meg is from $80000 to $FFFFF.
=
=You'l have to pick some addresses within the second 1/2 meg range to
=try TypeOfMem() on, low enough to avoid system stack and possible
=3rd party high-chip memlist removals.
=
=You could just check $80000, but remember that this will not tell
=you if this RAM is free.  Just that it exists.
=

However $80000 may in some future machine no longer be chip memory.
Moving the base address of chip memory from 0 tnd start it a 1m
would provide alot of benefits for 68000 users if we also put some
standard fast memory at location 0.
-- 
Dale Luck     Boing, Inc. {cbmvax|oliveb|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.