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Chip Memory

    10-May-94 00:32:12
Sb: #144593-Chip Memory
Fm: Ronald B. Romine 70322,1525
To: Gary 75216,1273
Gary >>If the Alice ever gets updated to access 8 megs then I could swap out the Alice and change the jumper ?<< I don't know. It would require remapping of the CHIP RAM to another location. As is, if the CHIP memory were to expand from a 2meg chunk to an 8-meg chunk, it would overlap 6-megs of the Zorro-II memory area, leaving only 2-megs for FAST memory. If there were another jumper for remapping the CHIP memory into a reserved area in the Zorro-III range, there wouldn't be a problem. I do remember Dave Haynie talking about it being possible to design the Agnus/Alice to see its CHIP memory area at a different location. I don't think the Alice, was designed to physically access the extra memory, and if not it wouldn't be pin comaptible once it was expanded. Ron. – ap'ing with AP. (Eagles may fly, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.)