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- From: armstrongmw@cgc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 386BB and 2630e
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.085902.88@cgc.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 08:59:02 PST
- References: <2431@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1992Jul30.093331.5391@enea.se>
- Organization: Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Ca
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- In article <1992Jul30.093331.5391@enea.se>, tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
- > aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes:
- > - In article <63021@cup.portal.com> DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin) writes:
- > - >Pat,
- > - >
- > - >Unfortunately, the 4MB on the 2630 is configured in your 8MB of RAM
- > - >expansion room. With a 4MB 2630 and the Bridgeboard, you'll only be
- > - >able to add 2MB of 16-bit RAM.
- > - >
- > - >Denny Atkin | dennya@cup.portal.com | "No matter where
- > -
- > - Say WHAT??? I thought the whole 'beauty' of the 2620/2630 accelerator boards
- > - was the fact that their *32bit* ram was 'outside' of the standard Amiga
- > - autoconfig ram space, and thus with a BB, you could have 6Meg of 16Bit
- > - ram in the 'standard' autoconfig address [+ 1Meg of chip / 2Meg of chip if
- > - you have MegaChip/a 3000 for a total of 7/8Meg] and however much 32bit
- > - ram that was supported by the board [like the 112 meg that you can stuff
- > - on the DKB memory board for the 2630card] thus, making the BB system much
- > - more viable/useable...
- > -
- >
- > No, that's the 'beauty' of the A3000...
- >
- > --
- > =============================================================================
- > Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden
- > =============================================================================
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- No, that is correct, it does not fall into autoconfig space. If the DKB 2632 112mb
- ram expansion is used, all of the expansion memory(on the dkb2632) will fall into the
- 2630 32bit address space.
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