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From: aoe@hpfcso.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: unix and memory, sigh (was Re: What Happens If You Have > 9 Meg??
Message-ID: <10870003@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 91 20:43:37 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.002917.21545@lavaca.uh.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <43339@ut-emx.uucp> amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) writes:
>>The Amiga 3000 is capable of accessing 1.7 Gigabytes!!!! Not a limit you will
>>excede soon.
>
>More practically speaking, you get 18MB for the price of the memory chips, 
>since that's what fits on the motherboard.  ...
   [ stuff deleted ]
>                                                           ...  Using the
> now-sampling 16Mbit chips, rather than the 4Mbit chips my board did, you could
> put 192MB-256MB on a single board, with some effort.  And it would cost a
> fortune.  

Would it be possible to use those 16Mbit chips ZIP RAM chips in the mother
board sockets of an A3000?  Just dream'n I guess ...

 - Alexander Elkins (aoe@hpfiaoe.fc.hp.com)