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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re:   Mike Farren Tutorial.
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 03:43:49 GMT

In article <18ec731b.ARN0f5b@icoast.UUCP> hbrinch@icoast.UUCP writes:
>In article <1991Apr2.002244.11549@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, Ethan Solomita writes:
>
>> In article <18ead851.ARN0f31@icoast.UUCP> hbrinch@icoast.UUCP writes:
>> >
>> >I tell you the problem.  MEMORY - not everybody has 1Mb (or more) and
>> >killing the system will give you app. 200Kb more and the ability for more
>> >sophisticated diskloaders / protections.
>> >(Please don't flame me about this, I'm a system-programmer and wouldn't
>> > kill the system.... I'll do anything to keep that wonderfull system alive!).
>> 
>> 	Well, I will flame you about that ridiculous statistic of
>> 200K! MAYBE, if you have a highres overscan WB, the screen will
>
>Excuse me, I said "app."!  Okay, I probably mentioned a too large number
>BUT judge for yourself, you have from $c0-$7ffff (app. 524000 bytes)
>then break the CLI sequence and check your memory (AVAIL you know).
>You have the CLI/WB screen (app.(!!!!!) 80K) + the exec/dos system do I
>really have to tell you more?
>If it isn't 200K it's less, but not much less.... still enough memory for
>quite some game-effects (levels/sounds etc.).
>
>> take up 100K+, but then the workbench screen can always be
>> CLOSED!
>
>Why SHOULDN'T it be closed, I would say it's pretty strange to kill the
>system and leave the WB screen open !
>
	Isn't that what I said? Of course you would close the
scree, even applications programs kill the workbench screen. The
screen itself takes up 32K, 64K if it is interlaced. From my
experience the OS takes up about 80-100K of RAM, which is a lot
less than 200K if you consider there are only 512K to take from.


>> 	-- Ethan
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