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From: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: DMA memory size clarification.
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Date: 13 Nov 90 17:27:15 GMT
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In article <526@fawlty.towers.oz> johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean) writes:
|I presume if you had 4 Mbit chips (Simms I guess, I do not think anyone
|makes a GS card that takes 4 Mbit chips), you could DMA the whole eight
|megabytes. The boundary condition as to what happens over the 8 meg line
|
|John MacLean.
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Does that mean all current RAMcards that use Simms will be able to take the
4 Meg ones? I've always seen them advertized as taking 1 Meg simms. Having
8megs of DMA ram would be pretty neat! :-)

---Dave Huang

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