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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 32 bits CHIP ram
Message-ID: <14695@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:19:32 GMT
References: <447392@neabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <447392@neabbs.UUCP> rrs@neabbs.UUCP (RONALD VAN EIJCK) writes:
>We all hope Chip ram will be 32 bits wide some day. So my suggestion is
>that we all start to change the allignment of data in chip memory to 32 bits
>so there will be no problems if commodore wants to change this.

	It already is in the A3000 (however, only the CPU sees it as 32 bits
wide).  There is a function call for allocating display ram for bitplanes:
AllocRaster().  This should do "the right thing" in any hypothesized future
chipset.

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