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From: gary@cirl.UUCP (Gary Girzon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Amiga data bus
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:44:46 EDT
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> 	Does anyone *know* (not guess) if the Amiga has an 8-bit or a
> 16-bit processor bus?  I counted 8 RAM chips in the photo of the board
> that was in the byte article.  This would be consistent if the board
> uses 256k x 1 chips and has 256k bytes on it.

	The Amiga has a 16 bit data bus, and the RAM chips are actually
64k * 4 (yes, they exist although at higher prices than 256k * 1). This
was confirmed at the Boston Computer Society preview. Also, count the
number of pins on the RAM chip in the Byte article. It is 18.
			
						Gary
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