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You dont need to ship gobs of ram as long as you standardize expansion. Commodore was very bad at reading the room and shipped artificially limited hardware htt
by rasz 1y ago
You dont need to ship gobs of ram as long as you standardize expansion. Commodore was very bad at reading the room and shipped artificially limited hardware https://a4000bear.neocities.org/overclock/Agnus/Agnus https://a4000bear.neocities.org/overclock/Agnus/Agnus Afaik absolute max was either 2MB chip ram or 1MB chip + 1.8 MB slow with Gary adaptor.
The least they should have done was actually shipping Fast Ram controller (with unpopulated ram) in every single Amiga model since 1987 A500. Instead we got trapdoor expanding shared slow/chipset ram with very limited addressability.
Atari for what is worth quickly standardized on using SIMM sockets right on the motherboard and supported 4MB.
- panick21 1y agoOh yeah totally agree. I was just thinking at the primary sales package, most people likely would open the box and put in new rams. Developing a standard socket makes a huge aomunt of sense. Back then every company had their own standard (or many). I think Amiga was fine at reading the room, at least the engineers. But the never did any signifciant chip develpement to improve things. Only the new chipset for the Amiga 1200 when it was already much to late.