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From: dale@wucs.UUCP (Dale Frye)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Will the real Amiga stand up!
Message-ID: <1087@wucs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:43:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:43:48 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 20:53:05 EDT
Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis, CS Dept.
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In Byte they show a picture of the Amiga motherboard with two 27256 ROM's and
room for two more. The picture also shows only 8 41256s. Is the memory bus
only 8 bits wide?  However in a new magazine called AmigaWorld there is a
picture of the motherboard with 16 41256s. I couldn't see any ROM but then the
disk drive was in the way. A friend who attended a local dealer roundup by
Commadore told me that there isn't any system ROM. Instead the system is loaded
on power-up into RAM and then is write-protected. 

Questions

1: How much real ROM exists and what is in it.

2: How much RAM exists and how does the write protection work. (i.e. can the
       size of the protected area be programmable)

MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION!!!!
3: Is the memory data path 8 or 16 bits wide!!!!!!!!


Dale Frye @ Washington University in St. Louis