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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,rec.humor
Subject: Chip RAM and Fast RAM
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Date: 23 Jan 91 01:20:37 GMT
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Something just occurred to me.

As most Amiga owners are aware, you can have two basic kinds of
memory on your Amiga -- fast ram and chip ram.

The older Amiga 500's can have 512K on the board, plus 512K of
expansion ram on an expander unit in the belly slot.

The expansion ram in the bottom is not accessible to the custom chips,
so you really can't call it chip ram.

This ram can not be accessed as quickly as expansion ram in the side
slot, so it's not really fast ram.

So what do you call it?

How about "half-fast ram?"

Sorry.

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.