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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
- Subject: Re: 10 MB fastram onb a2000: technical question
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:08:37 GMT
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- frits@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) writes:
- : Recently I saw in the German Amiga magazin an add from WAW Elektronik
- : where they advertised a chipram expander for the a500/a2000 that also
- : had an extra 2 MB on board with which you can get a total of 10 MB Fastram.
- :
- ..
- :
- : I know this is possible with a bigger processor, but if I read the add
- : correctly they intend it for the standard a500/a2000 with a 68000 processor.
-
- I have an A1000 with 9.5MB of FAST RAM and .5MB of CHIP RAM. It is all "legal"
- memory. It's actually possible to have 9.75MB of FAST RAM in the A1000, but
- I don't know of anyone who actually makes a memory board that has the extra
- 256KB of memory.
-
- This "extra" 1.75MB of memory-space in the A1000 is for memory only and
- is documented by Commodore. Why they don't document it for the later
- machines, I don't know. Any Comments from Commodore engineers.
-
- Here is what I know of the memory map of the Amiga. Exact locations are
- unknown because I don't have the books handy. (Not properly scaled.):
-
- A1000 A500-A2500 A3000/A4000
- +-----------+-----------+-----------+
- | .5 MB | 1 MB | 2 MB | "chip" RAM
- +-----------+ | |
- | +-----------+ |
- | | | |
- +-----------+-----------+-----------+
- | |
- | 8 MB | AutoConfig (tm) space
- | |
- +-----------+-----------------------+
- | 1.75 MB | | Memory space
- +-----------+ |
- | |
- .. ... I/O, chip registers, reserved
- | |
- | +-----------------------+
- +-----------+ |
- | .25 MB | .5 MB | Kickstart ROM
- +-----------+-----------------------+
-
- If someone from Commodore will get me the complete, accurate information,
- then I will make a nice Postscript and/or IFF version of this memory map.
- --
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