Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site wucs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!wucs!dale 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 Article-I.D.: wucs.1087 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. Lines: 20 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