[Coco] any interest in an 8MB ram card for COCO3?

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 14:29:53 EDT 2010


Out of curiosity, aside from a ram disk, what else can be done with
this extra ram?

I ask because if a ram disk is the only useful application, perhaps
presenting it as ram in the system is the wrong approach.  Maybe it
would be more useful presented as a disk device.

-Aaron


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces at gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding from the cocozilla site was-
>
> *  the locations in upper memory that are defined, can be extended to 2MB
> *  additional memory locations can be used to extend memory further
>
> SRAM is not a great choice for enormous amounts of ram.  DRAM is better.
> Perhaps 2MB is the sweet spot, given I have 1MB and 2MB SRAMs.
>
> ..Steve
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