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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: Falcon '030 BUS: 16 or 32 bit?
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- References: <1992Nov17.050651.18469@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> <H.QHklPxgdMm2@fredrik.atari.no> <1992Nov19.071614.6495@nosc.mil>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:02:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.071614.6495@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:
- >In article <H.QHklPxgdMm2@fredrik.atari.no> jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no writes:
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- >stuff deleted
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- >> The Falcon030 can have a minimum of 1 meg of RAM and a maximum of
- >> 14 megs of RAM. Possible RAM configurations are 1meg, 4meg, or 16
- >> megs of RAM.
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- >That last RAM configuration looks rather interesting if there is a
- >maximum of 14 megs :-)
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- The upper 2 MB of the 16 MB are wasted because the memory-mapped I/O
- registers live there. I wonder why they didn't add in a control bit to
- bank-switch that last 2 meg in. Oh well.
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- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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