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- On 11-May-97, Schitso wrote:
- >I just wanted to clear this up. ECS has up to 2MB chip ram.
-
- No, it does not. The 3000, which is actually AGA without the new display
- modes, has 2 Megs of chip. ECS machines do not. The DKB megachip will expand
- your CHIP memory to 2 megs, true, but I know of no one who has one.
-
- >Most machines
- >only came with hardware to support 1MB though.
-
- Because that's what ECS is.
-
- >My 3000 came with 2MB chip
- >ram.
-
- Which is not real ECS. It's a hybrid.
-
- >If you got a DKB megachip or similar product you can have 2MB on both
- >your 2000 and 500. As far as I know, the only ECS machines capable of 2MB
- >without such extra hardware were the A500+, A600(?), and A3000. I could be
- >wrong about those, but my ECS A3000 definately has 2MB chip and 14MB fast.
-
- All those machines were the ECS hybrid machines. Normal ECS machines don't
- have 2meg chip capability.
-
- Well met and godspeed,
- Giark
- joehick@golden.net
- http://www.golden.net/~joehick/fbn/index.html
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