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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS's Memory Limit
Message-ID: <16430@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 17 Jun 91 13:59:15 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.065317.13965@clark.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun17.065317.13965@clark.edu> 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?

No, it is architecturally incapable of accessing more than 8MB of
main-memory RAM.  There is also a ROM space (containing the firmware
and room for other ROM), but only a tiny number of sites are going to
be able to exploit the additional ROM space.

The on-board RAM lies within the 8MB space.