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- From: cthomas@athena.mit.edu (Michael T Ford)
- Subject: Re: Wanted:RAM cards
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- In article <STEVEV.93Jan9005027@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
- >In article
- ><2b4e20e6.5081.1comp.sys.handhelds.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
- >akcs.dmankin@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (David Mankin) writes:
- >
- > Howmuch ram can the HP-48SX access? Can it hold 256K ram cards in each
- > of it's slots? or it 128K the limit?
- >
- >The HP 48 can address only 128K bytes of memory per card slot.
- >Cards that contain more than 128K of memory divide it into
- >separate 128K banks that are switched under software control.
- >Such cards are useful but they cannot generally be merged into
- >main memory (you would have to free that merged bank in that card
- >before you could access the other banks on the same card). Most
- >people who use the 256K or 512K cards have recommended having a
- >merged 128K card in the other card slot.
- >
- >The total address space of the Saturn is 512K bytes (or 1M
- >nybbles). However, the built-in 32K of memory is mapped over the
- >top of 32K of ROM at address #70000, or can be mapped instead to
- >#F0000; this allows the total simultaneously accessible RAM to
- >total 288K (32K standard, plus two 128K cards).
-
- But all in all, the most that a 48SX can access today is 1056K.
- That's two 512K cards plus the original 32K. That's still a lot
- even if it can only see 288K at once.
- Better yet--why not get the diskdrive? It's cost is comparable
- to a couple RAM cards.
-
- Mike WZ0C
-