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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS
Message-ID: <9528@e.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 88 22:08:40 GMT
References: <3051@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <3051@crash.cts.com> tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) writes:
>Okay, call me ignorant, but I still can't believe that!  How many Amiga
>owners here have 1meg sockets on their motherboards?  How many IBM's, Mac's,
>Apple ]['s, ST's, VT100's, Mac ]['s, or any other computers that are currently
>being used in the educational or personal or small business markets are
>actually using 1 meg chips on a regular basis?  How many of you think that
>you will pay for a motherboard upgrade so that you have 1 meg sockets only?
>How many of you think that computer manufacturers will give you free mother-
>board upgrades?  (Commodore? not likely, Apple Inc.?  No way!!!)

er.. Apple ]['s and vt100's have no need for extra memory.  especially
the vt100.  I don't know about ST's but I suspect that they use 1/4 meg
chips.  Mac's aren't self-upgradable to my knowledge but again they probably
use 1/4 meg chips.  IBM's vary depending on the manufacturer and the expansion
board.  Some use 1 meg chips other's use different stuff.  Mac II's use
SIMM's which I understand can come in 1 meg or 1/4 meg models.

For us ... at least the ASDG 8MI board uses 1 meg chips.  2 megs of 1 meg
chips about 1.5 months ago cost me $500 and the board ran ~$350.  I think
there's another board for A2000's which uses SIMM's.

thumbnail review of the 8MI board: I like the looks of the board, the manual
and the software.  The board looks like ones I'd find inside a Vax.  The
manual is user-friendlied but otherwise has lots of good information in it.
The software is complete and does a good job (especially the rrd).
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