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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Bridgeboards taking 2M of autoconfig space
Keywords: why?
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Date: 24 Feb 90 21:48:44 GMT
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In article <1827@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>I've heard that they take 2M out of the autoconfig space.
>
>Is this true?

>Why?
>Isn't the shared RAM only 128K? And doesn't the autoconfig protocol
>provide for a minimum size of 64K? Unless there is something I'm missing
>(quite likely), the Bridgeboards should only take 128K, not 2M.

When was the last time you saw a 1 meg or 512K add-in board for a 2000? If it's
going to use the memory address space, it effectively eats a 2 meg chunk in
terms of real-world products anyway, even if it only needs 128K.

-larry

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