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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
Subject: Re: STe Internals
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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 06:21:23 GMT

In article <1991May15.055715.4021@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
...
>
>I read in one of the on-line magazines a couple of months ago that Jim Allen
>had developed a 14meg upgrade for the STe and a 10meg upgrade for the MegaSTe.
>I couldn't understand the difference, since I would expect the MegaSTe to
>be able to be upgraded with more RAM, but I haven't heard anything since.

I imagine that the reason for a smaller maximal memory upgrade for MegaSTEs
is that the VME bus requires some address space.  I don't know if 4 Meg is
available on the VME bus or not, but that might explain it.  Can't put RAM
where the bus is on the memory map!


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