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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A3000 & Unix
Message-ID: <11892@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 May 90 06:37:48 GMT
References: <3399@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <2028@agora.UUCP> <1990May5.200030.17439@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990May27.172139.13851@agora.uucp>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.tech
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In article <1990May27.172139.13851@agora.uucp> billsey@.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes:
>		The built in flicker fixer only saves me space on the video
>buss, not on Zorro space and the Bridgeboard is still a viable card
>for the 3000, it's certainly not built in!

	Remember, the video slot is in-line with a Zorro slot on the 3000.

>	Note that although I said that I wouldn't need to put the memory
>board in the 3000, I can see where not too far down the road, a memory
>board would be nice... After all, if we can outgrow 512K and 2M, we can
>outgrow 18M... Right now, when I have the bridge installed, leaving me with
>only 7M, I *do* run low once in a while... Then I just pull the bridge
>and go to 9M... But I've found that my usage grows to fit the available
>space.

	You can add memory via the "cpu" slot.  It's even faster than Z-III
memory (no bus xfer to worry about).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"