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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga History (again).
Keywords: It's back.
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Date: 17 Dec 90 15:52:51 GMT
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As a sort-of follow up to the -=RJ=- Aimga story, the National Capitol
Amiga User Group once had an Amiga Day, and invited RJ to speak; he
gave almost the same talk, but of course the questions and answers
were different.  It was a little later, and we had an actual, working
SideCar there, too.

Two questions that stick in my mind were:

Q: Can you run windows [at the time, this would have been v2.xx] on
the SideCar?

=RJ= Yes!  And the neatest thing about it is that you can make the PC
window very, very small and push it to the back of the screen ... ;)

Q: Why only 512k of Chip RAM?  There's 2Mb of space ... is there any
way to get more than 512k of Chip?

=RJ= When the Amiga was originally designed, 256 or 512k of RAM seemed
like a lot for a game machine.  By the time it became a real computer,
the design was so far along that each extra address line for Chip ram
would have added $$$ to the selling cost, and delayed the machine even
more.

Derek Wildstar (aka Guy Garnett)
(a founder of NCAUG, and *STILL* an Amiga 1000 owner! :-)
         ... tho if anyone wants to give me a 3000, I'll accept ;-)

Disclaimer : The above is from my memory, and is subject to the usual
factors of selective rembering and bit rot.  Take with a :-)