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Depending on how Black Belt writes to the screen, the speed up in IP could be great, or virtually -0-. I think what Joe meant my 'system' (OS) speed ups were things like menus, window moving, requestors, etc… moving the OS into 32bit ram makes them much faster; like driving a ferrari in responsiveness rather than a tank. 🙂 If IP uses the OS routines to redraw the screen, then moving it to 32bit ram would speed things up considerably. But I doubt they do. Most 'high performance' software seems to write to the screen directly, bypassing the OS routines. That means that moving the OS to 32bit ram will not have much (if any) effect. I'd bet Ben will chime in here with a response 🙂 The MMU is responsible for relocating the 'system' OS stuf into the 32bit ram, fom the 16bit regular rom. That's why you need the 68030, the MMU, and the 32bit ram. I have an 030 accelerator, with plenty of 32bit ram. Also have 2meg of 16bit ram (chip). To optimize IP and HAM-E, I would think you'd want basically what Joe has, the 68030 with MMU, and four meg of 32bit ram. That way your system would have five meg total (incl your 1meg chip?). More than fast and space enough for most IP operations, even on hires images with a couple buffers. Of course the 040's out now seem to be blowing the 030's away in terms of performance! The image calculations would sure be FAST, I'd bet! –jp–seattle–