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Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk
- Subject: Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk
- From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Date: 1997/04/21
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Empsoft
- References: <5iqnaj$120i@enzu.unm.edu> <5jbav9$h5r@lynx.unm.edu>
stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
> I already have a 4 meg card in the RAM slot of my IIgs, and one meg on
> the Rom 3 motherboard.
>
> WHAT THE APPLE WORLD NEEDS NOW is a 4 meg slot 1-7 RAM card, sort of like
> RamFactor for the IIe.
Do you really need a 4 MB RAM disk?
> Does such a card exist
No. The largest standard slot RAM card is the RamFactor, which supports
1 MB. It also supports a 2 MB piggyback card, but I gather they were
very rare, if they were ever available at all.
> and would its extra memory be recognized in addition to the 4 megs
> in the RAM card slot.
Only as a RAM disk, not as normal IIgs RAM - you would simply have 5 MB
of normal RAM plus a 4 MB RAM disk.
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David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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