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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 for the A2000
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 20:25:49 GMT
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- On or about 08-Jan-96 13:07:40 Wells Fargo Bank typed the following words
- about "Re: 060 for the A2000". My reply is thus...
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- WFB> mgooch@gil.com.au wrote:
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- : I am looking to speed up my 2630 A2000 as well as add 32 bit ram. Two
- : boards come to mind the DKB2632 daughterboard and the Blizzard 2060 bo
- : of which take possible ram up to 128 Mb.
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- : My major hassle is that since putting in a graphics card I have lost
- : access to 2 meg of fast ram which is now being used by the card.
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- : If I installed one of these with say 16 mB. then I should have 2mb vid
- : 1 mb chip and 16mb auto config'ed fast. Is this essentially correct. D
- : these boards increase the A2000's capacity beyond the 9 Mb. mark.
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- : I note that the 2060 Blizzard is 700uk from Harwoods and the DKB A2632
- : hard to find.
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- : what chips do these boards take and how much per meg.
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- : Any opinions welcome
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- : Kindest Regards, Mick Gooch.
- : mgooch@iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au
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- WFB> On the A2000, you are limited to 10 Megs of Auto Config RAM. That would
- WFB> a maximum of 2 Megs Chip RAM and a maximum of 8 Megs 16-bit Fast RAM.
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- WFB> With your Video card, this would change to a Maximum of 6 Megs 16-bit Fa
- WFB> since the Video card is using 2 Megs of the Auto Config space for the ca
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- WFB> All 32-bit Fast RAM will be available as extended memory. It will not b
- WFB> recognized upon start-up. You will usually get a program with your
- WFB> accelerator or RAM card that tells the Amiga where this extended memory
- WFB> located. You will typically want to add this program into your startup-
- WFB> sequence so that it is made available each time. This does not change h
- WFB> much Auto Config space is available, but you do get to access the RAM.
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- WFB> I do hope this helps.
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- WFB> Rob Bamford
- WFB> (wfblan@netcom.com)
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- Also note that the DKB2632 is a daughter board and as such does not take up a
- slot. It also uses industry standard 72pin non parity SIMMS. SIMM sizes can be
- mixed on the board.
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