More Chipram

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Anyone know of a way to increase chipram beyond 2M in an A4k?  I thought I read somewhere about a hw hack that could be done to accomplish this but its just been so long I don't have a clue where I read it..  Or even IF I read it.    Anyway, the question is: Can this be done?

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@Piru
You mean "search" the Internet?   Tried that.  No luck.  Searching a much more effective medium now: people's brains.  There is definately a way to do this.  The hurdle to overcome in this case is one of limited resources, not technical feasibility.  What the Amiga community lacks in resources, however, it more than compensates for in its resourcefulness!  This will be solved with pure ingenuity, imho.  

Chronic pessimism -- or as the pessimists call it, 'Realism' -- doesn't help much.  There's ALWAYS a way... no matter what the problem is.  If pessimists (sorry, "realists") had been listened to throughout history we'd all be travelling by mule, communicating via carrier pigeon, and marrying our relatives.  Actually, that all still happens in the bible belt of Central US (sorry, could resist).      Anyway...I'll give one example and then be quiet.  

Ever hear of Prescott Eckert?  He built the ENIAC for the US Army in WWII.  ENIAC was the world's first 100% digital computer, btw.  Guess how many people told him "it can't be done" ove the 5 or so years it took him to build it?  Everyone except his dog, pretty much.. Its a good thing he didn't listen to the surrender monkeys.    

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@Blade:

Sorry, nice try.  Z3 and MK1 don't qualify as "digital" since they both used mecanical parts.  The z3 used mechanical relays and the Mk1 was used magnetic relays!  The Colossus was indeed purely digital but, according to what I've read, it was not fully funtional until January/February 1946, while the ENIAC was completed as of December of 1945.  If you're going to count mechanical machines as true "computers" then we'll probably have to hand the crown to the ancient Mayans or maybe the Chinese for some the their stick and rock contraptions!

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@Blade:

The question of which computer came first, Colossus or ENIAC is polymical.  My original point is the same.  

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@Leirbag:

Critics are a dime a dozen.  This is not impossible.  I'm thinking again about one possible solution that came to me back when I was in AT school in the Navy. I never got past sketches for it, but I believed then (as I do now) that this is not the Mission Im possible some here make it out to be.  A lot of people are just dead certain about this and have intractably closed their minds to any possibility of nuance.      

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The only Threologans here are the hard-headed ones who know for absolute certainty that they -- and only they -- have all the answers.