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From: billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500/A1000 Bus Expansion KIT (Survey for commercial product)
Message-ID: <1487@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 22:51:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1487
Posted: Thu Aug  6 22:51:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 00:44:25 EDT
References: <1430@crash.CTS.COM> <2177@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp)
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Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Keywords: KIT form bus expansion, no soldering

In article <2177@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1430@crash.CTS.COM> billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp) writes:
>> []
>> 
>> I am working with some people who are designing a bus expansion kit for
>> the 500 and 1000...
>> 
>> Additionally, we expect to have a memory expansion board (expandable to 
>> 16M) available at the same time.  Other products are planned at a later
>> date.
>>  			Bill D'Camp DevWare, Inc.
>
>I don't want to be a meanie, but I have to mention somewhere along here that
>non-autoconfig boards that try to flow extra memory into all the nooks and
 ^^^ -- a misunderstanding here, probably due to my leaving out a rather
 important phrase in my parenthetical remark about 16M, this board will
 autoconfig, there is room to expand to 16M, but that would only be usable
 if some future version of the Amiga is set up to address that much memory.

>crannies of the Amiga address space are not supported and will probably be
>broken as we make normal evolutionary changes on future Amiga models.
>
>I don't expect this statment to keep people from persuing such notions, but

We aren't pursuing that, because our boards will be set up to use SIMM
modules they will be able to accomodate 16M using 1megabit SIMMs.

>you have been warned.  Hopefully any such product will have a little DIP
>switch that enables/disables each category or block of expansion memory.
>
>-- 
>George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr

I hope this clears up any misunderstandings which may have resulted from
my error.


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