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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A Few Questions on the A3000
Message-ID: <755@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 15:02:52 GMT
References: <6971@orca.wv.tek.com> <11246@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
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In article <11246@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>Yes. The fast ram area accepts to types of chip pinouts. The usual DIPs and
>exotic ZIPs. They won't be so exotic in a few years. If you want to add more
>fast ram, the right thing to do is take the DIPs out of the fast ram DIP
>sockets and plug them into the chip ram DIP sockets. Then plug in ZIPs in
>the fast ram ZIP sockets. You may plug either 1 megabit or 4 megabit ZIPs in
>there.


	I was wondering, do you need the fast ram? What I am saying is can you
simply move the shipped 1 Meg of fast ram over to the chip ram banks and have
2 Meg of Chip ram and 0 Meg fast Ram? Is there a hardware reason that you could
not do this? Dave?

Monty Saine