Article 45061 of comp.sys.cbm: Xref: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca comp.sys.cbm:45061 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!csbruce From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce) Subject: Re: Super64 CPU Update Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 20:06:41 GMT References: <48el60$k5k@news.paonline.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: ccnga.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!) Doug Cotton wrote: >There has been a recent change to the plans for the Super64 CPU product >line. According to the original specifications, the unit was to include >64K of fast Static RAM, and 64K of Fast ROM. This has been changed to >64K of standard ROM, and 128K of Fast Static RAM. The operating system >will be downloaded into RAM from ROM to avoid performance hits. Since >the fast ROM was an expensive item that will now be replaced by an >inexpensive standard speed ROM, no change in the overall price of the >unit is expected for the increase in fast Static RAM. If one didn't need the Commodore BASIC, Kernal, and JiffyDOS ROM, will one be able to use this second 64K of RAM for his own purposes? (The difference between 64K and 128K of RAM on an 8-bit computer can be the difference between "possible" and "not possible"). Keep on Hackin'! -Craig Bruce csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of .5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration." -Stan Kelly-Bootle