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From: stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS's Memory Limit
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.154708.2232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 15:47:08 GMT
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andy@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Andy Stein) writes:


>    While it may be nonstandard and not fully addressable, isn't the Apple 
>IIGS's memory limit 17 Meagabytes? If one has a ROM 03 GS, and Applied
>Engineering's RamKeeper and two GS RAM Pluses with 8 Megabyes each, isn't
>the total memory capacity of the computer 17.125 Megabytes, with the ROM
>03's 1.125 Megabyte on board memory? Maybe I'm totally offbase, but that's 
>what AE advertised.

Except that I think you can aonly address 16 MB.  The GS does use 24 bit
addressing, which gives a theoretical maximum of 16 MB.
I would be real surprised if 16 MB proved to be exceedable.
-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey
stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu