Re: IIGS ram card work in ][e?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> writes...

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>: IIGS memory cards support the way the IIGS looks at memory, as
>: a linear memory space of 16MB (the IIGS splits this into 8MB of
>: RAM and 8MB of ROM space, so RAM cards are limited to
>: 8MB).
>
>There is support for only 1 mb of ROM, in banks $F0-FF. The SHR video displays
>and native soft switches are in banks $E0 and $E1. The vast majority of banks
>from $80 on up are unallocated.

    I thought I already corrected him about that technical fact
not too long ago, though it he refused to believe me. Somehow 
he constured it as "IIgs bashing".

    System ROM can be expanded to 1 MB, while general purpose
RAM can go up to 8 MB (with DMA available to only the first
4 MB found in the expansion slot).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca