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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Memory Upgrades (was Re: SLM804 woes)
Message-ID: <11830026@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 89 04:55:15 GMT
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Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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 Why doesn't Atari make the mother board upgradable on the 1040ST etc
(i.e. a switch option to allow both 256K and 1M chips). I have seen this
on AT boards etc. 

					Dave

Don't get me wrong... I really like my Atari (and that other computer
I own that starts with a 'A'). But the marginal cost of upgradability
between the two types of memory for the capability gained isn't very great.
Why wasn't this done to begin with?  Supposedly the MMU supports DRAM refresh
for 1 megabit chips. Also, why doesn't the MMU provide some protection?