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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS's Memory Limit
Message-ID: <16475@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 Jun 91 05:11:21 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.221622.561@crash.cts.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun20.221622.561@crash.cts.com> rhood@pro-gsplus.cts.com (Robert Hood) writes:
>I'm shocked.  In all of this thread I've seen, everyone has mentioned only
>what is directly accessible.  Has everyone forgotten the 128K 8-bits?  The
>address space on a 6502/65C02 is only 64K - surely someone could figure out
>a way to do something similar with the GS, no?

I can tell you're not a programmer!

As soon as a different mechanism has to be introduced to access such
"extended" memory, programming to use it becomes MUCH harder.  You
might as well resort to RAM disk or even hard disk for the extension,
which of course is already possible as things now stand.