> JB> I never owned an Amiga, but somewhat recently during my research of
> JB> the components in various older computers (possibly to order some of
> JB> the graphics chips from an old machine for television interfacing in
> JB> projects I was considering doing)
 
> that would be a shame way of using an amiga
 
Don't worry, I only looked for individual chips and/or broken systems of
things I planned to use for parts.  Had I ever found an actual working
Amiga, I'd probably have been using it and learning more about it instead
of pulling it apart!
 
 
> i will self try it here, but since i was planning using ums for echomail
> store i have to be clever on how to formating the harddisk since it cant
> use disks sizes over 4G !, i hope some can rewrite ums so this limit is
> gone, but still else keep it compitable :)
 
The problem you run into when trying to use larger disks is the physical
computational power of the machine required for it.  4GB already uses a
32-bit addressing method, so anything higher and you're looking at handling
even larger numbers. This means computations usually get done more slowly
via software routines rather than on the cpu itself, so you could be
looking at some slow disk speeds on anything much bigger.

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