Re: GS 1 meg board -- more room?

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

In article nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes...

>In article <60sghn$j7s$1@nnrp1.crl.com>,
>Louis Cornelio  <cornelio@crl.crl.com> wrote:
>>thanks nathan, I neglected to test this machine in our lab as it was in 
>>storage & I thought all our cpus had 1 meg or better. It is a Rom 3 
>>machine -- didn't  they come w/ 1 meg? & what use a mere 256k more?
> 
>   Correct, ROM 3s have 1MB on the motherboard. 256K more is more ram
>for larger documents, addons, etc. If it's available, might as well
>use it, especially as with System 6, the OS finally gets usable at
>about 1.25MB ram. 1.5MB total is livable, 2 is good enough for quite a
>lot of things.

    If you want to be picky, the ROM 3 motherboard has 1.125 MB of 
memory built-in (1152K). Just like the ROM 01, the ROM 3 has 128K
of 'Slow RAM', but 1024K in 'Fast RAM'. So technically it is 1 MB
plus 128K, which equals 1.125 MB total (not 1 MB or 1.25 MB).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca