| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hello,
A quick answer maybe !
Not that i have the money for it but on an AMIGA 500 can you only
upgrade to 8Mb of RAM ? or could you join through bus through for
exemple 2,3,4,... Supra 500RX an build up 8*2,3,4... RAM ?
Cheers, Patrick
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| 5082.1 | Nope | BOMBE::MOORE | Amiga: Where 'multimedia' REALLY began | Mon Sep 30 1991 05:28 | 2 |
No, the 3000 is the first Amiga capable of using more than 9MB total
memory.
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| 5082.2 | 9MB is a LOT | ULTRA::KINDEL | Bill Kindel @ LTN1 | Mon Sep 30 1991 10:04 | 25 |
Re .0:
> A quick answer maybe !
Ok.
> Not that i have the money for it but on an AMIGA 500 can you only
> upgrade to 8Mb of RAM ? or could you join through bus through for
> exemple 2,3,4,... Supra 500RX an build up 8*2,3,4... RAM ?
The A500 (and its siblings the A1000 and A2000) are limited to 9MB
(512KB on the mother board + 512KB in the A501 clock/memory expansion +
up to 8MB of additional RAM wherever you put it) by the address lines
that are visible to the CPU. In case you hadn't noticed, THAT'S A LOT!
(AmigaDOS isn't as much of a memory pig as certain other systems).
Unless you're into SERIOUS desktop publishing (in which case, you'd
probably also want a CPU accelerator) or creating large animations,
you're not likely to be limited by this.
You can break the 9MB barrier on A2000 systems by using accelerator
cards that have on-board 32-bit RAM. They also have the additional
address lines to service same. The A3000 is built with a 32-bit bus
and sufficient memory address lines to service 18MB (2MB CHIP
RAM + 16MB Fast RAM).
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| 5082.3 | Thank you | DUCK::NONDEP | Tue Oct 01 1991 04:51 | 5 | |
Well,
Thank you for the replies so far...
Cheers, Patrick
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