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From: rpa@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (R.P.Almeida)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 2000 memory questions.
Message-ID: <2898@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 08:06:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: eagle.2898
Posted: Fri May  1 08:06:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 04:00:25 EDT
Reply-To: rpa@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.Almeida)
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Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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Keywords: A2000



Hi Everyone.

 Excuse me, this is my first posting to the net.

Ive got an Amiga 2000, and have had it for about 3 Weeks now.
 Im in the United Kingdom, and have the German built machine not the West 
Chester design.

  Over here , the A2088 bridge board is an optional extra, and i dont have it,
because i dont want or need PC compatability. (And its not available here yet).

 Anyway, on opening up my machine, i find that there is a board in the processor
slot, this contains 0.5Mbytes of ram, and a further 0.5Mbytes of empty sockets.
The main board only contains 0.5Mbytes ram.

  Almost the first thing i did was to go buy 16 * 256k D-ram chips and plug them
into the empty sockets, and play about with the jumpers on the board until the
extra .5Mbytes appeared.

  I found out that the ram was mapped at C00000 to CFFFFF using ROMwack and a
terminal.

Now , what i want to know is - Is this truly fast ram, or is it slow/fast ram ?

 And what happens to my nice 1Mbyte of ram, when Commodore bring out a 68020
board. ??

Also back a bit , someone suggested to Perry to post to North America only.
 Please-please continue posting to UK aswell, otherwise we wouldnt have the
ASDG RRD. ( $10 coming soon Perry. ) , and its great to know what is available
for the Amiga, as it is possible for us to get stuff brought over from the USA
by friends/relatives etc.


   Thanks
          Richard Almeida.