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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000: 32-bit mem appears to be 24-bit?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 23:16:28 GMT
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
- Message-ID: <1357.6612T1032T1569@execpc.com>
- References: <4em5jb$8es@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca> <4f5f0q$404@erinews.ericsson.se> <4fcm2a$m9p@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>
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- On 08-Feb-96 11:16:26, Josh Pryor <ougjp@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
- >Johan Zeylon IN/SA/BIB (etxzayl@cate1.ericsson.se) wrote:
- >:
- >: The original Amiga had a 68000 processor with 24 address lines. Therefore
- >: the custom chips were designed with 24 address lines too. They can only
- >: access the first 16Mb of memory space. Including CHIP RAM, ZorroII
- >: expansions (up to 8Mb), motherboard RAM (in 68000 based Amigas) and
- >: custom chip registers.
- >: The motherboard RAM of the 3000 is located above 16Mb and therefore needs
- >: more address lines to be accessed. Likewise ZorroIII expansions can not
- >: be accessed by the custom chips.
-
- >Was this limitation fixed in AGA? I hope so, sounds like a 640k
- >limit for the future:-)
-
- Nope. AGA has a potential 8 megs (1/2 of the 24 bit address space) of video
- ram. OTOH, the custom hardware has no need (as yet) to do DMA outside of the
- chip ram area. However, it wouldn't be a bad option to make it possible to
- use fast ram as CHIP, rather than the converse as is now allowed, at least as
- an OS configuration option. Though the machine would run slower than way,
- sharing the bus.
-
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