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Offline freqmax

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Re: OCS discussion
« on: June 28, 2011, 11:20:57 PM »
What makes "slow RAM".. slow ?
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Re: OCS discussion
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2011, 12:46:24 AM »
But why RAM that suffers chip accesses, but still can't be accessed by the same chips?
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Re: OCS discussion
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2011, 01:52:29 AM »
The A501 expansion RAM and Zorro-II RAM all becomes slow-RAM in an A500 ..?
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Re: OCS discussion
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2011, 03:02:11 AM »
Aha.. that's why A500 was SO slow.. ;)

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Re: OCS discussion
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2011, 12:03:21 AM »
A neat hack in the Amiga days would be to make a Zorro-II RAM of a A501 expansion with little or none support circutry. In essence an adapter.
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