Re: Have any of you put this chip in your //gs?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Exegete" <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote in message
news:3fdf42f9$1_5@corp.newsgroups.com...
:
: If you study carefully the RAMWorks series by AE, you will see
that they
: have extended Apple's bankswitching so that the IIe and IIc can
have
: megabytes of RAM. To what purpose? Well, if you use AppleWorks
3.0 or
: higher, and the various TO utilites, things speed up
dramatically since
: all are loaded into RAM and you don't have the constant
accessing of the
: disk drives for new overlays everytime you try to do
something - a
: problem that was a real drag for users of WordStar on CP/M and
MS-DOS
: machines.

Are you saying they have broken the 64K barrier on
a machine with only 16 address lines? I suppose that
if you were to switch at each 64KB and at each 4 MB
which would be 64K of 64K, then you could go as high
as you want, but you would need to go pretty fast to
make it worthwhile. Ok, I'll agree that there is reason
to have so much ram.

: There are a few other applications for the 8 bit IIs that can
also
: utilize the additional RAM. And of many that can't, you could
still
: create a RAM disk and run the app from there, giving further
increases
: in speed (WordPerfect comes to mind here.)

For the average Apple IIe user, 1 MB, maybe 2-4, would
suffice. More memory doesn't always add speed, but it does
keep things running smoothly, I'll grant you that.

: The biggest problem with a "new" Transwarp would be the PALs.
How to
: duplicate, or replace them. I, frankly, haven't got a clue.

PALs and GALs can be replaced with PIC controllers,
but you'd need to work out the fundamentals on your
own there. Unless AE would be willing to share their
data on how they did their logic.

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