PowerUp My Amiga
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I am planing to POWER UP my AMIGA2000. Now, I am thinking which RAM EXPANSION
or HARD DISK is better for me. RAM is very attractive to enjoy multi-tasking.
But HARD DISK is also attractive because of SLOW floppy drive access. I think I
can pay ,at this time, 10000YEN ($700) or alittle more. What should I do.
SAWA, Yasushi
Yasushi,
I'm not certain what you can get for 10000YEN over there, but, I'll give you my
personal experience.
I upgraded my 1 meg A500 by adding a 20 MEG Autoboot HD first (and you
definitely want AUTOBOOT) and then adding an extra 2 meg of RAM. I've not been
sorry that I chose that order of expansion. I did it that way because, in my
application, I was having to reboot too often when changing applications, since
one Workbench diskette couldn't be expected to hold all the "#?.library" files
and device handlers, etc., that are required. Of course, since everybody's
usage is a little bit different, so "your mileage may vary." 8)
I found the 1 meg RAM + Autoboot HD to be a workable configuration, but a bit
limiting in the multi-tasking area because you end up with about 750K left
after a "moderately sized" system startup. (By that I mean just a couple of
background programs and an FFS partition overhead on the Hard Disk.) Also,
there was little memory left over for things like ram-disks, which are still
useful for temporary files, compiling, etc.
Hope that this helps. 8)
David
Thanks for the help.
Mark Laskowski
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