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From: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: MegaMac
Message-ID: <1840@sjfc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 03:52:33 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.

Well that's just too bad for your IB*, isn't it? Since you so snottily
asked, the Amiga 3000 can address up to 1.7 gig of memory. I do believe
that there are 16 zip memory sockets in an A3000. With 1 X 4 chips that's
a healthy 18 meg (with 2 meg chip ram). With the just emerging 4 meg chips
that would make 64 meg. A very respectable amount. As I understand it, 
those chips are becoming current technology. Who's to say that memory
boards utilizing those same chips won't be available soon, say put in
a couple of 64 meg memory boards...(I'm not saying these will be available
just that it's possible. The 3000 can use multiple A2000 memory boards, 
for comparison sake...)
Now, when memory chip density increases to the point when say 8 or even
an astounding 16 meg chips are around, the 3000 will be able to take
advantage of this with the sockets already on the motherboard.

Perhaps a better point then just arguing how MUCH memory your respective
machines can have, but just how WELL the available memery is used. I
mean any old Amiga program recognizes and utilizes as much friggin' RAM
as you can throw at it. In the IB* camp, things are a bit different, as
I understand it. As for the Mac, for the most part, large amounts
of memory in use is not much of a problem. Just sometimes. (Maybe in the
sense that you absoluting MUST have a fairly large amount of RAM
( => 2 meg ) to do really useful things with the latest software and
OS. Again, this is how I understand things.) As if you didn't know this
was coming:  But none of the above is really true for the Amiga.

Respectful replies will be given consideration, flames will be laughed at.

==Brett