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From: dingebre@imp.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: MegaMac
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.064107.15465@javelin.sim.es.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 06:41:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.173708.18346@milton.u.washington.edu>, reeses@milton.u.washington.edu (KGB Assassinate CIA NSA FBI secret George Bush Child Pornography Military Heroin Terrorism) writes:
> In article <50099@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
> >In article <91157.001511MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (Norman St. John Polevaulter) writes:
> >
> >>The Amiga 3000 can be expanded to 2 Gigs (that's 2000 Megs) of RAM.
> >>Next question.
> >
> >Really?  Tell me how it is done.
> 
> Yes, please do.  Just because it can linearly access vast sums of memory(and
> I think you are overestimating the number the Amiga can access by about 800
> megs) does not mean that it is physically possible.  My i386 machine can 
> access 4 gigs, but I don't think there is any way in hell I can fit it all
> in my box, especially with current technology.
> 
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> -- 
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> reeses@milton.u.washington.edu   University of Washington, Seattle
> "Reality is a cop-out for people who can't handle drugs"


This really sounds like the classic "Mine's bigger than yours" locker room
argument. Someone go get a ruler and the contestants drop trou'.

David