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

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3fdf575e_5@corp.newsgroups.com>,
Exegete  <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
>Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> RAMWorks and similar cards use such an 8-bit bank number,
>> and the design naturally extends to 16MB.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the AE cards basically just work 
>with the AUX bank? Nah, that can't be right!

Yes...instead of one bank of auxiliary memory, you had multiple banks that
could be selected by writing to a register on the card.  The card had
additional logic to make sure video reads always came from bank 0, so
80-column text and double Hi-Res graphics worked as usual.

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