Re: 17 Meg //e

[salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <19990828034548.20414.00000842@ng-cs1.aol.com>,
Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote:
>Maybe I'm to "slot-focused", but why do you favor the RamFactor 4 mb expander
>over the Ramworks expander?

As someone who used a RamWorks III once upon a time, I'd guess that it's
easier to make full use of the memory on "slinky-RAM" cards (Apple II Memory
Expansion Card, RamFactor, etc.) than on RamWorks-type cards.  The
RamWorks-type cards can be thought of as like multiple Extended 80-Column
Cards, with memory switched in 64K at a time through a softswitch.  The
upper 16K of memory was a PITA to use since it went through the same
Language Card-type bankswitching that you have in 64K and 128K systems. 
With "slinky-RAM" cards, though, you'd just set the start address for the
block of memory you want to access and start reading/writing the block.

My RamWorks III had 1 meg, but with AppleWorks 3.0, I only had a desktop
about equal to three-fourths of that.

OTOH, there were other add-ons available for the RamWorks, like RGB adapters
and 65816 adapters (had the '816 for a while, but the 10-MHz RocketChip was
more useful).

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