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From: neil@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS ROMS -- BLITTER VERSION
Message-ID: <830@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 15:51:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 15:51:44 1987
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In article <2091@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
> From the posted rumors about the new ROMs:
> 
>>2. The ST puts the screen near the end of accessible RAM.  Sloppy 
>>   programs that have been writing past the end of the screen will give bus 
>>   errors if they do so on the 4 meg ST.
> 
> - this sounds very strange: Is any access above the current video RAM now
> a no-no? then how can one have multiple screens in RAM, writing to one
> while displaying another?  Or does this simply mean that writing beyond
> 4 Megs gives a Bus Error - then that's nothing new: same for the old STs!

Just that writing beyond 4 megs causes the problem.  Nothing new, except
that very few ST's have 4 megs.
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