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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why choose the A2058??
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Date: 12 Feb 90 22:35:30 GMT
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In <9002131936.AA00311@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, jwhitman@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Jerry Whitman) writes:
>Could someone please explain to me what advantage there is in the A2058
>Memory expansion board that makes it cost so much more than other RAM 
>expansion boards?  
>
>Even with the current educational discount it is still about $150.00 
>more than other boards with the same 2MB of RAM.

The 2058 is an 8 meg board. To expand to a full 8 megs requires only that you
add chips. The other boards you have seen may have been 2 meg boards only.

-larry

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