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Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:17:58 GMT
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"James Alexander" <james-m-alexander@home.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> william strutts wrote:
>
> > "Byron Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote in
message
> > news:9itqpg$poi$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca...
> > >
> > > Hardware:
> > >  - 68000, about 10MHz
> > >  - 4MB to 8MB RAM
> > >
> > You couldn't get that much ram on a 68000 because it only
> > has a 24 bit memory bus.  You would have to go to a 68030
> > or so to get the wider data path.
> > <snip>
>
> WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!
>


Dude. He said he wanted 64 meg to 256 meg of RAM. A
68000 with only a 24 bit address can't address larger
memory schemes.  16 meg would be the limit of a 68000.

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