Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1001 questions
Keywords: 68020, BridgeBoard, 32-bit memory, new chips?
Message-ID: <5842@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 20:56:34 GMT
References: <4254@enea.se> <5753@cbmvax.UUCP> <4271@enea.se>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 25

In article <4271@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>In article <5753@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>  The problem is that a typical dealer here barely knows what an Amiga is.
>  A 68020 card is considered black magic, non-existent, or whatever. That's
>  why I'm thinking of buying something from USA or Germany. I have a little
>  "sponsored account" from my company for Amiga hardware, and I'm thinking
>  of what to buy. Either an accelerator card, some colour digitizing
>  equipment (from colour video camera, PAL) or the famous Video Toaster.
>  Any info will be appreciated.

	The famous Video Toaster is on hold due to ram prices.  They hope
to realease it if and when ram becomes reasonable.  In the mean time, they're
doing some work to refine the Toaster even more, adding new features, etc.

>  What I meant to ask, was this: How do I get best performance, so that
>  the faster 32-bit RAM will be used first? And are these two (three)
>  RAM's mergeable? (I have a standard Commodore 2Meg card)

	The 32-bit ram auto-configs before other expansion ram, so just
run FastMemFirst (from the 1.3 WB disk) and 32-bit ram will be used first.
You can merge the 2 Meg board with the 2/4 Meg of 32-bit ram if you want
to, they should autoconfigure next to each other.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup