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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <17258@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 91 04:10:28 GMT
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In article <12901@uwm.edu> zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) writes:
>4 GB is also IMPOSSIBLE.  The Mac can access 16MB on a 68000 machine, or on

	 Actually, I believe the Plus is limited to 4MB (something in its ROMs).
Amax users with >4 megs on their Amigas usually run a 4 meg SE and use the
rest of their memory as a recoverable RAM disk (the Amax fools the Mac into
thinking it's dealing with an actual physical device).

>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.

     Amigas prior to the A3000 can access 9 megs (more with accelerators).
This is obviously not difficult to imagine :-).  Right now the 3000 can handle
18 MB of 32-bit memory; you could plug in 4 8M Zorro II cards for another 
32M, but it'd be slow stuff.  When Zorro III stuff starts to appear, as well as
processor slot boards, this limitation will disappear.

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