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Re: More RAM - a bad trend for m68k debian



On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:26:52AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:

> >  The recent trend to "more ram" could make debian-m68k pretty pointless 
> > within one or two release cycles: Most m68k-systems just don't have 64 
> > or 256MB of RAM, we are lucky having 16MB of RAM.
> Well it doesn't cost much to add RAM and most old macs and amigas, at
> least, can take it.

Typically Amigas are maxed out at 128 MB Fast Ram on the accelerator card
(plus any other "FastRAM", which is attached via ZorroII/III bus or on the
mainboard, but that's comparably slow with 13 MB/s), because there are
usually no more CAS lines. 
So, even when you would have 64 MB PS/2 SIMMS, you would only have 128M on a
(let's say) CyberStorm MK2 accel card... 

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