Re: How to test if your memory card is DMA compatible?

["Sean Fahey" <sean.fahey@a2central.com.remove-esr-this>]

  To: Henry
  Re: Re: How to test if your memory card is DMA compatible?
  By: Henry to comp.sys.apple2 on Fri Jun 08 2007 12:54 pm

 > DMA.  It seems that when Apple designed the FPI they really never accounted
 > for more then 4 Megs of RAM.  Why they would 'cripple' the IIgs like this I
 > have no idea.  It really seems like a bad design.  Maybe someone can shed
 > some more light on this for me?

Built-in obsolescense? I don't think Apple engineers imagined anyone needing
more than 4MB of RAM... why, that would make it more expandable than a
Macintosh of the same era.

Realistically, not many people do. People want 8MB because it's been done, and
they want to max out the machine. Aside from a whopper-sized RAM disk, what
programs from the era *require* more than 2MB of RAM to load and work with
data?

I'm not knocking people who want 8MB ... but after using Sirius cards for a few
years, I pulled them out to save the save the power for my accelerator.

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