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     With all this talk about 2M CHIP RAM not being enough for an A4000, 
     I decided to see just what I could do with 2M of CHIP RAM and 4M of 
     FAST RAM on my Amiga 3000. Now I realize that 256 color screens will 
     take up significantly more RAM than the screens I had open, but 
     remember that all screens on a A4000 do not have to be 8 bit 
     screens. After looking at the number of programs I was able to run I 
     decided that if I could only open 1/4th as many programs I would be 
     happy. 
     
     Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that there are not certain 
     combinations graphics applications which the 2M CHIP RAM limit might 
     be a problem and it's always nice to have more RAM no matter what 
     kind, but the 2M limit certainly does not make the machine unusable 
     as some would imply.
     
     The following is a list of applications I was able to open and use, 
     at least to some extent. I did not try every feature in every 
     program, and I am sure that use of some of the features would run me 
     out of RAM, but I did have useful data loaded into each application 
     and I did try some of the basic features of each program to make 
     sure they would run:
     

 4 channel stereo music playing with bar charts monitoring each channel.
      
 PROGRAM NAME   RESOLUTION    # COLORS         DESCRIPTION   

 Workbench        724X482        16             
 SUBSTORE         640X200         4      Cando deck(?) magazine database
 Final Copy       724X482         4      Wordprocessor program
 Advantage        724X482        16      SpreadSheet program
 Multiplot        640x400         8      Plotting program
 IntroCAD         640X400        16      CAD program
 Dpaint III       640x400        16      Paint program
 SYSINFO          640X200         4      System information program
 AmigaVision      724X482         4      Multimedia Authoring program
 HAM picture      320X400      4096      Great digitized picture of a car
 IFF picture      640X200        16      Drawn picture of Einstien (spelling?)
 CrossDOS                                Read MS-DOS 720k format floppies
 DirWork          On Workbench screen    Directory utility program
 Calculator       On Workbench screen    Standard Workbench 2.04 calculator
 Amiga Shell      On Workbench screen    Command line shell 
 98k RAM DISK
 
 
 PLUS THE FOLLOWING COMMODITIES WERE RUNNING:
 
 Name                  Description
 
 Arq                   Animated requesters program
 Click to front        Bring windows to front with a mouse click
 Iconify               Iconify windows with a shift mouse click
 FracBlanker           Screen blanker which creates fractals
 
 
 MEMORY LEFT:
 
 CHIP - 120,864
 FAST - 261,488
 
 
 JUST CURIOUS, WHAT CAN WINDOWS 3.1 DO IN 6MEGS OF MEMORY. (Virtual 
 memory does not count, it's to slow.) (I know different subject but I 
 could not resist.) 
 
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      | Kevin J. Taddeucci          | e-mail: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com    |
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