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From: civir1070@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (FURRY R)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.034236.14427@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 04:36:54 GMT

In article <22308@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes...
>In article <12901@uwm.edu> zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) writes:
>>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:
> 
>>>   <chuckle> 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!
> 
>>Wait a minute here.  OK, the Amiga can have 1.8 GB of RAM, in theory.

  Currently, the problem with having multiple megs of ram on a 3000 is
that only ZorroII boards exist, thus limiting the addressable RAM to
somewhere around 16 megs.  The 3000 can only accomplish the 1.8 GIG with
FULL 32bit addresses, hence the need for a (non-existant) ZorroIII
memory card.
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