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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: **** 5 ***** megs with NEAT / AMI ?
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Date: 25 Jul 90 05:05:09 GMT
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In article <10180@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
|| As someone who has studied the C&T NEAT data sheet, I assure you that if
|| you have more than 1 megabyte, the only thing you can do with the 384K
|| is use it for shadow ram. The NEAT chip set does not support any other
|| use.
|
|  The original question was how to use the memory for programs. I said
|you couldn't do it with more than 1MB. Are you agreeing with me, or are
|you correcting what you thought I said?

I'm agreeing and amplifying on what you said. You qualified your
posting with something to the effect of "I've never seen it done",
I'm adding that according to the data sheet, it can not be done.

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