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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 512K FastRam 3000
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.203331.25529@agora.uucp>
Date: 29 Aug 90 20:33:31 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.192905.13813@nmt.edu>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <1990Aug28.192905.13813@nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
:My friend recently bought an A3000 and upon setting it up and doing an
:avail, it showed the maximum FAST ram to be 512K!  So we checked the chips
:and jumper settings and all seemed to be fine... also took a look at the
:startup-sequence to see if there were any descreptancies, but none found.
:Any help would be appreciated...

	On the EPROM versions of the 3000 (read that, any 3000 before 2.0
has been installed as a ROM) the Kickstart is loaded into memory and
executed from there. That makes it easy for you to update differing versions
of kickstart by simply putting a different disk in and telling the Amiga to
update kickstart. It does, however, use up the 512K that Kickstart uses.

:-Dino Khoe
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