Re: 2e ram

[treiter@comet.net (Toby Reiter)]

In article <4g7bb8$2tj$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>, Tom Zuchowski
<71214.1670@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

> <<I disagree. My //e has both an 832K RAMworks and a 1 mb 
> RAMfactor. If I had to pull one of 'em, I would take out the 
> RAMworks. The slinky type memory cards are so cool, I have the 
> Apple variety in my main IIgs as well. Since I use it as a RAM 
> disk and have the built in RAM disk set to zero memory, my 5 mb 
> IIgs has memory to burn. >>
> 
> Well, OK, if your thing is RAMdisks, then that's fine.  But 
> some 8-bit software can only use slinky cards as RAMdisks instead 
> as real bank-switched main memory.
> 
> I won't swear to this, but I always had the idea that aux memory 
> was faster, too?
Well, in a certain sense, yes.  the first 128k of RAM in the IIgs was
specifically set as "slow" RAM. Anything over this up to 4 megs would be
fast memory (ie. DMA).  One interesting doo-dad: there was a special chip,
available from AE to make all of a GS-RAM + (all 6 megs) DMA compatible. 
I think this and the newer 8 meg cards are the only examples of DMA
compatibility over 4 megs. Any chance of anyone knowing anything about any
availability of these chips?
Anyway, that's all I have to say :P,

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