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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Only 64K in ROM 03 (Re: How much sound RAM?)
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Date: 28 Dec 90 22:42:29 GMT
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In article <60100@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) writes:
>This is basically a curiousity question, but I thought that the new
>GS still only had 64K DOC RAM.  I seem to remember that everyone who
>cared about such things was extremely disappointed that Apple Co. did
>not improve the GS in this area.
>
>Could someone cite a reference as to the true size of DOC RAM in the
>ROM 03 GS?  Isn't there a new hardware reference for the ROM 03?

Yeah, there is, and I just checked it. I even verified against the
schematic.  There's still only 64K of DOC RAM in the ROM 03. I'm not sure
why people thought it had 128K. Must've been a "wish turned into rumor
turned into fact". 

>Brian Willoughby


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