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From: Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Gareth Bull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RE:1.8meg expansion for A500
Summary: not so bad
Message-ID: <21164.26246723@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 12 Apr 90 01:31:47 GMT
References: <16531@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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In article <16531@snow-white.udel.EDU>, NJ_GOKEM%FANDM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> Marc askes:
>> org%"marc@altitude.cam.org"      "Marc Boucher" 11-APR-1990 09:17:27.96
>>
>>       A friend of mine would like to know if any of you have any experience
>> with the Intronics ProRAM 1.8 meg internal expansion card.
>>
>         I think those 1.8 meg expansion boards are quite expensive for what
> they do. This 1.8 meg will always be on the AGNUS BUS, and therefore be slow!

        But this is exactly what you want when C= release the 2 meg Agnes. Take
a look at the memory map in your owners manual. The first 2 megs are CHIP ram.
All that's left is for C= to start making Agnes with a 2 meg address space,
instead of the current 1 meg Agnes. I would have replaced the 256 x 1 Kbit
chips in my A501 with 1024 x 1 chips over a year ago if it hadn't been for the
fact that the chips in the A501 had a "non-standard" number of pins. The
thought of all those bus contentions doesn't bother me as I don't need maximum
performance, just lots of memory :).

PS.     I'm still waiting to here from people running news and/or telnet on
their amiga.

           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  com259h@monu1.cc.monash.oz
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