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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS's Memory Limit (17Megs)
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Date: 23 Jun 91 14:00:04 GMT
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>Be carful when you use the term 'bank' in the above context.  1 Memory Bank
>as defined for the Apple IIgs memory map is 64K.  In the above example, you
>mean 'rows'.  The memory expansion port only allows 4 rows of chips
>(256K/row with 256 Kbit chips or 1Meg/row with 1MBit chips) to be addressed
>by DMA. Applied Engineering did try to make 6 addressable rows by reading
>--
>Joel Sumner                     GENIE:JOEL.SUMNER     This .sig may not be
used

You are correct, Apple uses the term "row" for memory expansion, a bank is 64k
and there may be several banks in a row. 

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