Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!gt0t+ From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Memory Expansion Apple IIgs Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 03:00:28 GMT References: <9103032008.AA10465@apple.com> , <1991Mar5.063335.13398@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: <1991Mar5.063335.13398@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scotth@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Henderson) writes: > The other alternative is the Octoram card for around $40 more. It will > hold up to 8 1 meg SIMMs. 4 megs of which are DMA compatible. As many > have pointed out to me, if you have the Apple High Speed SCSI, all 8 > megs are DMA. Uuuh, I don't think so. I believe only the first 4 banks on the card are DMA. So if you're using 1 Meg SIMMs, you'll have 4 Megs DMA, but if you're using 256K SIMMs (why would you?), you'd only have 1 Meg DMA... > Make sure that the dealer you buy it from has them in stock. I'm still > waiting for one I ordered 3 weeks ago from a company that has already > received many complaints posted about it on the Net. Another uuh here... Didn't MDIdeas go the way of the dodo? Didn't MDIdeas make it? Did someone take it over when MDI went bye-bye? >-Scott > > -- > = R. Scott Henderson = "Some people claim that there's a = > = University of Illinois = woman to blame, but I know it's = > = scotth@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu = my own damned fault. = > = Apple II Forever! = -Jimmy Buffet = -Greg T.