home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!hela.iti.org!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!grr
- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200 IS THERE !!!
- Message-ID: <36699@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:52:29 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.165559.6918@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <OD.6badnetOA92-901-302p0_52d547b3@piraya.bad.se>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 20
-
- In article <OD.6badnetOA92-901-302p0_52d547b3@piraya.bad.se> Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin) writes:
- > > I called one of my aquaintences at GVP today and told him that people
- > > would like to see a 68030 (ec030?) at 25/33/40 mHz and 8megs of ram on
- > > a card that fits into the 1200's trapdoor. He said that he would pass
- > > the idea on up to R&D.
- >
- > Good idea. However, the A1200 has the address space 600000-9FFFFF, which is
- > the upper 4Mb of a normal 8Mb expansion at 200000, reserved for PCMCIA use.
- > You cannot but normal DRAM there, I presume. Of course, you could probably
- > squeeze in the extra 4Mb somewhere else, you have 1.8Mb available at C00000,
- > for starters.
-
- Yes, but given the presense of the '030 on the card, some or all of the memory
- could be located in the processors 32-bit address space, rather than the
- A1200's 24-bit address space.
-
- --
- George Robbins - now working for, work: to be avoided at all costs...
- but no way officially representing: uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
- Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
-