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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.162607.27304@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:26:07 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>In article <1991Jun7.043918.3060@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:

>>% RAM Expansion	: 1 Mbyte to 128 Mbytes of RAM on motherboard.  
>>                  Over 2 Gbytes in slots.

>8*256, or 2GB, of contiguous memory.  Of course, Macs have only had a real
>use for more than 16MB of RAM since the 15th of May, when they got 32 bit
>addressing in the OS.  

  Or more than two years ago, if you were using A/UX.

[rest of good points about NuBus being slow].

  Hopefully, by the time we really need more than 256MB (the motherboard
memory capacity of the upcoming 040 machine), everyone will be using 
64-bit processors with SCI and NuBus will be a thing of the past.


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