Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!rutgers!cmcl2!sbcs!mrose From: mrose@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT desktop & prices Message-ID: <1990Sep13.032727.3663@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 13 Sep 90 03:27:27 GMT References: <6648@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <2283@atari.UUCP> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 22 In article ralph@laas.fr writes: >In article <2283@atari.UUCP> mui@atari.UUCP (Derek Mui) writes: >| We would love to put the new desktop in the above machines. >| Unfortunately, we don't have enough ROM space to fit everything together. >| Just for your information, the new desktop is 22k bigger than the old one. > >Just a naive question, no flames please! Wouldn't the *new* desktop >fit into those Mega STs that use the 2 ROM chip set? Isn't there some >space in those ROM chips? Or couldn't larger ROM chips work? Isn't the Mega supposed to be able to access a Megabyte of ROM through the system expansion bus? Wouldn't it be possible to fit the new ROMs on an expansion board that plugs into the megabus? And how about throwing in a 68030 and a 68882 and a new graphics chips and... just hoping! :-) Take care!!! -Michael Rose no .sig file yet!!!