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From: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus
Summary: But is it even POSSIBLE for the A1000?
Message-ID: <2917@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 09:12:23 GMT
References: <1562@hub.ucsb.edu> <114@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <114@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>In article <1562@hub.ucsb.edu> dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
>>    It seems definate that the new chip can handle 1 Meg of chip
>>ram, but can it handle 2 Megs? (2 Megs is the address space set 
>>asside in the Amigas memory map for chip ram.)
>
>The A2000 and A500 motherboards can only handle 1 megabyte of chip RAM.
>That's because only address lines A1 thru A19 go to Agnes' socket.  A1 thru
>A18 are pins 60 thru 77 respectively and A19 is pin 59.  


Does anyone know if the A1000 even has enough lines to support one meg
of CHIP ram?  Is it even possible to do a FATTER AGNES adaptor thing?
(F.A.A.T. :-)

Mike Golden
Physiology Undergraduate
Michigan State University