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From: jss@cbmvax.UUCP (John Schilling QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus
Message-ID: <6852@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 14:09:17 GMT
References: <1562@hub.ucsb.edu> <114@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <2917@cps3xx.UUCP> <13652@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jss@cbmvax.UUCP (John Schilling QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <13652@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c152-cb@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) writes:
>In article <2917@cps3xx.UUCP> golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james) writes:
>>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.)
>>>
>>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. :-)
>
>I wanna know this too!  I have a 1000 and the Chris Erving A/C memory
>hack, which places memory  at the second 512k just where we want it:
>1 meg of contiguous RAM on the Chip bus.
>
>Keep in mind, though, that I am not squeamish about putting a couple
>dozen jumpers on the motherboard and/or adding a piggyback board on the
>Agnus socket.
>
>-Vince

The new Agnus will ONLY support 1 meg of CHIP RAM.  You can not use
it win your Amiga 1000.  PERIOD.  END OF STORY. NO.
    ^"in--forget the 'w'

				John Schilling, QA
				CBM, Inc.

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