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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas
Message-ID: <25351@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Dec 89 05:17:44 GMT
References: <25126@cup.portal.com> <1902@atari.UUCP>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Sorry, this isn't "pick on Dan Scott" week, really... but...
 
>in article <25126@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com says:
>  
>> Consider that the *cheapest* IBM clone board comes *socketed* for easy mem
>> expansion to the maximum RAM the system can utilize...

>However, the *cheapest* IBM clone still only knows about 640K of memory
>max (8086 based here).  Without an *EXPENSIVE* memory board in one of the
>card slots and some driver software 640K is all you'll ever get to use.
 
Missed the point again, Dan...
 
The point is, even a $59 IBM clone board can afford to provide you with the
sockets to add RAM up to *its* maximum capacity, while Atari Corp is too
cheap to install the $1.00 worth of sockets to give Atari owners expandabilit
to the maximum RAM capacity of their systems.
 
Maybe that's changing, now that we're seeing the promise of the use of
SIMMs for expansion... if it happens, that could be one of the best things
Atari has done in five years...
 
BobR