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Re: What do you get when you access RAM that isn't there?

Subject: Re: What do you get when you access RAM that isn't there?
From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:46:53 GMT
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Dosius <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote:
> Let's say you have a 32K system and you access byte $8000 of RAM. 
> Obviously there's nothing there, so what happens?  I'm just curious,
> but perhaps I can see what happens when one uses a 32K, 16K, or even
> 4K Apple ][, just for the hack value. :)


If memory serves, it was a pattern of largely 00 and ff bytes, with
some semi-random other junk.  I can't remember if the results were
stable.

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