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- From: hurlum@hulk.cs.hut.fi (Harri Juhani Holopainen)
- Subject: Re: MB = More Bitching (was Re: Problems with the A4000)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.224328.2547@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: hurlum@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Juhani Holopainen)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Sep12.083819.17967@news.iastate.edu> <1992Sep12.160434.3343@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:43:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.160434.3343@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep12.083819.17967@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) bitches:
- >>
- >>problems this has. Basically, the A3000 was not designed for the AA chipset.
- >>The Ramsey and Buster chips in the A3000 were designed for use with the ECS,
- >>in particular the 2M Agnus chip. The new Alice chip in the AA chipset -- the
- >>replacement for Agnus -- can potentially address 4M of chip RAM. But since
- >>the Alice chip has been kludged to work with other chips intended for the
- >>2M Agnus chip, none of the new Amigas can use more than 2M of chip RAM. The
- >
- >2M Chip RAM is more than the 1M VRAM on the SVGA boards and equal to the
- >amount of VRAM on some Mac Quadras. Do you really expect to use more than
- >2M for most applications? Hell, I've never run out of memory on my A3000
- >with 2M Chip RAM, even when trying to.
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- You soon will if u use a decent-sized wb (800*600 and up) with a nice 16-color
- (or maybe 256 color) Calvin & Hobbes backdrop picture and a public screen for a
- bunch of niftyterms.
- Even with the older chipsets & 2.0 the 1M chip limit is a constant pain
- at least for me.
- This 2M limit sounds much, much worse than whether there sould be an IDE or
- a SCSI hd to me. Wonder how much chip will a normal-sized 256k picture eat?
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- >No, you've established that even you can be more of an asshole than ever.
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- :-)
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- >>| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >
- >Go to hell Marc.
- >
- >Skip Sauls
-
- :-) :-)
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- --
- Harri Holopainen
- s36399s@taltta.hut.fi
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