Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: a1200 max ram?  (Read 3499 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Doobrey

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2002
  • Posts: 1876
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.doobreynet.co.uk
Re: a1200 max ram?
« on: April 18, 2006, 08:55:59 PM »
Quote

moominpapa wrote:
The reason i asked this question is i thought the cpu could only address 8mb, but i see now it can address 16.


The 68EC020 in the A1200 can address 16mb, but 8mb of that address space is reserved for things like chip mem, Kickstart ROMs, chipset etc. That only leaves room for 8mb of fast mem (or only 4mb if you still want to use the PCMCIA slot) unless you add an accelerator card with a CPU that can address more.
On schedule, and suing