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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A-500 rumors & comments
Message-ID: <1771@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 13:12:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 13:12:09 1987
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in article <8704240432.AA23509@cogsci.berkeley.edu>, bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) says:
> Keywords: A-500 autoconfig clocks
> 
> 
> Rumors have it that the internal slot on the Amiga 500 will be able to accept
> 512 or so of SLOW FAST memory with no hope of splitting the bus to create
> FAST FAST memory.  What does net-land think about this, and what does
> Commodore have to say in it's defense?

The internal slot of the A500 is set up to take a card with 512K of non-chip
memory that's subject to the same contentions that the CHIP memory is.  That's
what you call SLOW FAST memory.  That's also why the list price of this
add-in card, with a battery backed-up real-time clock, is about $150.  You're
perfectly welcome to buy an A500 and hand some auto-configuring real FAST
memory off the expansion port, just like on an A1000, in which case that
memory will run just as fast as it would on an A1000.  This internal memory
is a NEW FEATURE, no one's constrained to use it.

> I feel the descision is unwise.  I am aware of the cost related reasons
> (Hi Jeff!) for the descision.  Still, I don't think any of the third party
> developers want to need to deal with SLOW FAST ram.

There's no reason they should know or care if its there.  Things will run
just as fast on the A500 with built-in 1 meg as they will on the A500 with
built-in 512K.

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Dave Haynie     Commodore-Amiga    Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh
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