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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000: 32-bit mem appears to be 24-bit?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 22:12:45 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4fdp0d$6ba@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <4em5jb$8es@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca> <4f5f0q$404@erinews.ericsson.se> <4fcm2a$m9p@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>
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- ougjp@alinga.newcastle.edu.au (Josh Pryor) writes:
-
- >Was this limitation fixed in AGA? I hope so, sounds like a 640k
- >limit for the future:-)
-
- The custom chips can only access chip memory anyway (and are currently
- limited to 2MB). This is not a problem because future custom chips
- could access any amount of chip memory if they are designed accordingly.
-
- But this has nothing to do with a "24bit" addressing. This is a Zorro-II
- and 68000 limitation that can be overcome by Zorro-III and 68020+ CPUs.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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