Re: Ram

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <gf75838@pro-nsdapple.cts.com> clueung@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Chantha Lueung) writes:
> Has anyone Actually put a full 16 meg of ram on the IIgs?

I doubt it.  The IIgs hardware (FPI) and memory manager only support
fast RAM in banks $00 through $7F (8 megabytes).

It may be possible to patch the memory manager to support banks $80
through $DF and $E2 through $EF, but I think there would be major
hardware problems, and software may be making assumptions about valid
bank numbers.  Banks $F0 and up are reserved for ROM (and used by
some ROMDISK products).

> I run everything off of ram the drives and hard drive are just abit
> slow to access...

Easy solution here: get a RamFast SCSI card and/or a faster hard drive.

My SyQuest drive and Apple High Speed SCSI card is much faster than
RAM5.  Even my old slow Rodime hard drive is of comparable speed to a
RAM disk.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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