Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!zark From: zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <12901@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 21:31:55 GMT References: <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <231@touch.touch.com> <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 32 In article <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <231@touch.touch.com> mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes: > > The A3000 can handle 128Meg or RAM...without even blinking! In > fact...it's expandable to to 1.8 GIG!!! (a GIG, for you mac folks who > never deal with such numbers, is 1024 Meg). That's real memory, on the > bus! > > NOW...you show ME a mac that can be expanded to 1.8 GIG...now or in the > future...virtual mem or otherwise! Give up...pull down "shutdown" for > the last time...get an amiga 'cause you really HAVE been missing something! > Wait a minute here. OK, the Amiga can have 1.8 GB of RAM, in theory. Is there any product on the market which will let you do this? No? Then it's impossible. IMPOSSIBLE, no matter what the CPU can do. An 80386 can access, what, 4 GB of RAM? As far as I know, the best you could do today, if you packed every slot with RAM would probably be around 128 MB. So the 4 GB is also IMPOSSIBLE. The Mac can access 16MB on a 68000 machine, or on the 68030 machines, 4GB of RAM. This limit is also IMPOSSIBLE, since there is no way to pack that much RAM into a computer. The physical truth is that a IBM-compat can hold 64MB max (I think this is the limit today, correct me if I'm wrong) The Mac can access 128MB of RAM *NOW*. What can the Amiga do now? I mean, a card or adapter you can buy and pack tight with RAM? Note: This is not a cut on owners of any computer, just trying to put this in perspective. -- (Steve Kosloske) | "When the bottle's empty, the ------------------------------------| lecture's over. " - The agent for Internet: zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | gonzo journalist Hunter S. UUCP: uunet!zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | Thompson.