[SPARCbook] What is the Max Ram for 3GX....???

[Thomas Roehr]

I thought the technical specs from the manual had the memory IO addresses as
256MB IO, 256MB memory? Time to fire up xpdf and re-read the specs...

Tom Roehr
troehr at nj-onramp.com

Ian Spray wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 18:06:57 -0400
> Thomas Roehr <troehr at nj-onramp.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes they would, you just lose the battery space.
> >
> Just for the record - 256Mb is not possible on the XP/XS/GS/GX/TX range of
> machines: only the S3000 supports that much RAM.  I'm unclear about the
> physical/electrical aspects of the design, but yes, it was a custom one,
> and to help things along it required a fairly large change in the way that
> both OBP and the kernel/boot loader typed up the RAM.
>
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