Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple IIGS's Memory Limit Message-ID: <9106191816.AA15806@apple.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 17:32:48 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 On Tue, 18 Jun 1991 18:09:14 GMT randy hyde said: >Of course, the Apple IIe uses a 6502 with a 16-bit address bus. That would >limit it to 64K. Didn't stop people from putting a megabyte into it. >Yeah, it used bankswitching. The GS could use that too. That's probably what >AE is alluding to, some sort of bank switching scheme. I wouldn't know though, >I haven't looked closely at their stuff in a couple of years. >*** Randy Hyde ...but that would make the new memory available only to a few applications, like with the //e. Only Appleworks, and a few odds and ends programs could use it directly, while the vast majority of programs could only use it as a RAM disk, although, that would still be better than not having it. ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com