Re: Just curious . . .

[botting@leper.tamu.edu (Tye W. Botting, SysAdmin)]

In article <dk34138@pro-nsdapple.cts.com>, express@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Jeff Goodman) writes:
>I'm pretty sure it was Apple II came at first probably 4k, and when Apple
>introduced the first disk drive that was increased to 16k, then with the
>introduction of the II+ that baseline was increased to 48k, from there you
>could increase the base memory to 64k and the upper 16k that was called
>bank switched memory. 

	The upper 16K was called the language card or language card memory.

>Third party producers had cards that would allow an
>Apple II or II+ to access beyond 64k and with the introduction of the IIe/c
>Apple included support for over 64k.

	Both of these implementations were then called bank switched memory.

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