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Re: IIgs Applied Engineering "GS-RAM" card question.
- Subject: Re: IIgs Applied Engineering "GS-RAM" card question.
- From: "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:26:45 +1300
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: ihug ( New Zealand )
- References: <3A30F0B5.FF5C49A2@usb.com>
- Xref: supernews.google.com comp.sys.apple2:4345
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In article <3A30F0B5.FF5C49A2@usb.com>, Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> My IIgs has an Applied Engineering "GS-RAM" card, with two of the 6
> rows of chips populated. It takes 14 pin "41256p-12"'s (I'm not sure
> on the 'p'). I assume these are 120ns DRAM chips. If I remove the
> card, the IIg2 control panel reports that I have 171K of ram. With the
> card in, I have an additional 512K. So, if I fully populate the card
> I'll have 2.5M + 171K (why is it 171K?) Is that enough to run GS-OS?
> I've always wanted to try GS-OS.
The control panel only reports the total free memory. Your motherboard has
256KB on board, but the you can't use all of it since some of it is reserved
e.g. the video memory.
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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - Warcraft II
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
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