Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi From: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Re: Expansion on 520ST?? -No more RAM?? Message-ID: <371@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 20:45:45 EDT Article-I.D.: eneevax.371 Posted: Wed Sep 25 20:45:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:52:22 EDT References: <15700017@unido.UUCP> <249@ccivax.UUCP> <1738@orca.UUCP> Reply-To: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) Organization: U of Maryland, EE Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 20 In article <1738@orca.UUCP> davecl@orca.UUCP (Dave Clemans) writes: >This is a summary of some notes from Compuserve. > >The 520 can be upgraded to at least 2MB internally (all decoding is in >place, etc.). With extra decoding and improved cooling you could >reach 15MB. However, GEM would probably have to be modified to know >about more than 2MB. There will be a 1MB expansion board announced in >about a month. I think that the company is called "Dynamic Software Design". > >dgc Actually the ST can be currently expanded to 1Mb so maybe you should call it a 512k expansion board. The memory controller can handle up to 4Mb in two banks of 2 Mb so when 1 Mbit chips come out its likely that the ST's can be upgraded to 4Mb with some hardware hacking. -ravi -- ARPA: eneevax!ravi@maryland UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi