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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.142400.4830@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 11 Feb 91 14:24:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.005537.7551@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7498@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Feb8.133703.4810@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Feb08.170805.9961@convex.com>
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In article <1991Feb08.170805.9961@convex.com>, swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
> In article <1991Feb8.133703.4810@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>>In article <7498@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>> And you can't upgrade the
>>> RAM -- you have to throw out the RAM you have and replace it with bigger
>>> chips.(Amiga allows 18 MB on the motherboard, and can address 1.7 GB RAM.)
>>
>>Hmm? If you
>>want to upgrade Amiga's memory while the slots are full, you have to
>>throw small SIMMs away, too!
> 
> Mr. Jalkio, you don't know what you are talking about.
> 
> The A3000 is upgradeable to 18 Mbytes on the motherboard, no slots are used
> or needed for this upgrade.  No simms are used or needed.
> 
> You take the 1Mbyte of ram out of the normal memory section of the
> motherboard and stick it in the display ram area with the other Meg that
> is already there (the machine comes with 1 meg 'chip ram' and 1 meg of
> 'fast ram').  This upgrades your 'chip ram' to 2 Mbytes.  Then you take
> up to 16 Mbytes of 1Mx4 bit drams (in 4 Mbyte increments) and you plug
> the discrete chips into the empty sockets provided by Commodore on the
> motherboard.  You now have 18 Mbytes.  That is all there is to it.  There
> is no need to "throw small SIMMs away".  There aren't any in there.


Quite a logic there, huh? Do you mean that it would be better if
NeXTStations came with less memory than 8 1MB simms so that when you
upgrade your memory, you don't have to throw those 1MB simms away?

You can upgrade to 32MB on motherboard - isn't that actually better than
18MB? And you get at least 8MB as stantard, how about the Amigas?

> 
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