Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ubc-cs!van-bc!root From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: B2000 memory Message-ID: <1836@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 21:40:28 GMT Sender: root@van-bc.UUCP Lines: 34 In <3906@saturn.ucsc.edu>, paladin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (90709000) writes: > I posted a similar message a while ago, but no one answered the >questions, so here goes again. The B2000 is upgradable to 8 megs, but >does it have to be put onto an expansion card, or can it be placed directly >on the motherboard? And are 150ns chips optimum for the B2000, or are >0-wait chips even better? And is the relative price increase worth it? >What about 1meg chips (as opposed to the 256K ones)? Will future boards/ >whatever be able to use these chips now that they're more cost-effective >than the 256K ones? If so, how long (estimated) before such hardware >comes out? They have to be placed on an expansion card. Have you looked at the motherboard at all? 8 megs if a fair chunk of real estate, even using 1 MBit chips. On an Amiga, 150 ns chips _are_ 0-wait chips. 1 MBit chips are definitely better from a real estate point of view. Currently, 256K chip memory boards hold 2 megs per board, though that is not the maximum that can be placed on a single expansion board. With 1 MBit chips, you can have the entire 8 megs on one board easily. ASDG makes/sells an 8 meg board that takes 1 MBit chips. -larry -- If all the MSDos machines were laid end to end, they still wouldn't be as fun as a single Amiga. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+