Re: II GS Memory & ProDOS

[lee@lcremeans.erols.com (Lee Cremeans)]

In article <8c3acs$qfm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, pilgrimer@my-deja.com wrote:
>If this already came thru my apologies for a double post; deja.com is
>being funky:
>I too want to know  why the totals on the boards is small. I populated
>several Apple IIGS and Laser 128 memory boards with chips pulled from 3-
>486 motherboards. I KNOW these chips were 256k (that's "K" not "bytes"
>folks) because I have a chip checker and I checked each and every one
>before installing. The checker reported their size as 256k. So If I
>put a passle of these on a board.....How Come only a meg?? As I
>recall from grade school: 256 times 4 is all you need to reach that
>lofty figgur... must be some a that thar "new Math......"

That's because the chips each represent 256k*bits*, not k*bytes* -- they're
organised 256k words by one bit, so you need 8 of them to make 256kbytes,
and 32 of them to make 1MB.

-lee

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