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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: James Alexander <james-m-alexander@home.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:37:24 GMT
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william strutts wrote:

> "Byron Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
> news:9itqpg$poi$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca...
> >
> > Hardware:
> >  - 68000, about 10MHz
> >  - 4MB to 8MB RAM
> >
> You couldn't get that much ram on a 68000 because it only
> has a 24 bit memory bus.  You would have to go to a 68030
> or so to get the wider data path.
> <snip>

WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!

Go check the 68000 Data book.  For that matter take a course in basic digital
electronics.  A 24 bit address bus will support up to 16megabytes total with
no extra tricky hardware requireed.  Btw, the data path is irrelevant to
amount of ram a cpu can address, data bus is strictly for moving DATA,  wider
will give shorter read times for large values.  the Address bus determines how
much memory is available without resorting to such things as bank switching &
so on.  Btw, the 64 to 256 megs of flash mentioned could be addressed with
some additional hardware.  This is not "pie in the sky fantasy",  but the
common techniques used on apple II, commodore & atari 8bits that supported
more than 64k of ram + roms.

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References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>
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- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
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- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
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