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- From: joel@fc.hp.com (Joel Lefebvre -etw)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000: 32-bit mem appears to be 24-bit?
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 00:55:59 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca) wrote:
- : Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca) wrote:
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- : : 1) For the 2 megs chip RAM, "LOCAL PUBLIC 24BitDMA"
- : : 2) For the 4 megs fast RAM on the motherboard, "32BitRAM LOCAL PUBLIC"
- : : 3) For the SupraRAM 8 megs, "FAST RAM PUBLIC 24BitDMA"
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- : : What does the "...PUBLIC 24BitDMA" mean? Is the memory not 32-bit, or is
- : : there something I'm missing? The chip RAM is 32-bit, so why isn't the
- : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- : Er, I should have said that the 4 megs fast RAM is 32-bit...according to
- : the SysInfo info.
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- : Sorry...
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- The 24 bit refers to addressing within the 24 bit autoconfig space. This
- is the address bus width not data bus.
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