Amiga questions you've always been too embarrassed to ask

[manossg]

In Greece it's thousand and two hundred!

[NorthWay]

Originally Posted by Estrayk

QUESTION: I read a long time ago that 68040 processors can benefit from L2 cache memory. Why has no accelerator ever been done with L2 cache for Amiga?

thx

My CyberStorm has remnants of a level 2 cache in its design - I don't know if one was ever made. (IIRC there was a serial interface too that I haven't seen.)

[van_dammesque]

Originally Posted by Gordon

Who here says Amiga 1200 like "Amiga One thousand two hundred" instead of "Amiga twelve hundred"?

We have a winner to this thread, this is THE most embarrassing question in the thread!

Mind you A4000 is always A-Four-Thousand, right guys? Guys...?

[Gorf]

Originally Posted by NorthWay

My CyberStorm has remnants of a level 2 cache in its design - I don't know if one was ever made. (IIRC there was a serial interface too that I haven't seen.)

I think the very first 040-card by Commodore for the A3000 had a 2nd-level-cache. But that was newer sold.
I think Dave Haynie told that ... right here it is: "128K of L2 cache on-board"

https://bboah.com/index.php?action=a...053&artlang=en

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by manossg

In Greece it's thousand and two hundred!

In Italian it's: mille e due (mille = thousand, e = and, due = two)

[Tigerskunk]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

Hmmm, I always said oh three oh, oh six oh etc., but I guess I'm in the minority. I now use a mixture of both, depending on the audience.

It was always Amiga twelve hundred though!

Even crazier is that a lot of people pronounce Amiga as "AMMIGA" here in Germany.
The split is really around 70/30 here, in my experience.

[Glen M]

Fun fact

In Spain they call Amiga

Friend

[wiz12]

Originally Posted by Glen M

Fun fact

In Spain they call Amiga

Friend

It's more like "Female" friend.

[seuden]

Originally Posted by van_dammesque

We have a winner to this thread, this is THE most embarrassing question in the thread!

Mind you A4000 is always A-Four-Thousand, right guys? Guys...?

A forty zero zero

[zipper]

A four ton...

[Hewitson]

Amiga Four Triple-Zero

[sneckburger]

Nah, Forty-hundred

[Gorf]

You mean the Amiga four-oh-zero-oh ...

[grond]

Ay-for-kay

[Gorf]

Now we finally figured out why C= went bankrupt:
Nobody knew how to call the new line of Computers...

[Glen M]

Back on topic...

Are there file size limitations on the various file systems i.e. SFS, FFS, PFS? In particular I'm interested in PFS as thats the one I normally use but would like to know for the others as well.

[thomas]

AmigaDOS has a file size limit of 2.147.483.647 Bytes (that's 2GB minus 1).

SFS\2 can do more, but only with special DOS packets which no software on OS 3.x supports.

[daxb]

I'm not really sure but many years ago I tested SFS2 (A1200, FastATA, OS3.1) and file size >2GB with AHIRecord (~3 hour radio record) and it worked I think. Need to be verified.

[Toni Wilen]

PFS3AIO has experimental variant with >4G file size support (official pfs3aio has it disabled) and I think normal version will support up to 4G-1 files. UAE directory filesystem also supports max 4G-1 files and larger files with 64-bit dos packets.

There must be at least one program that uses 64-bit dos packets because UAE directory filesystem 64-bit packet support was added many many many years before PPC support and I rarely (if ever) add features without being able to test them with real world software..

[breech]

Is there some hidden trick to force multiview to wrap plain text docs to fit within its window?
(ClassicWB)