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Chris Burke writes:
>
>Ricky Beam notes (regarding a possible 17MB MM/1):
>>It doesn't really matter what the CPU can do, the hardware bus is set with
>>a 24bit address and 16 bit data paths.  16 Meg is the max for the system.
>
>With the 68340 (or even a 68306) you have a 24-bit bus, but the
>chip selects are based on a 32 bit address space. Thus, the
>largest single memory block is 16MB (due to the # of address lines
>on the bus), but you could address as many of these blocks as
>you have chip selects (e.g. by running a "flying wire" from the
>chip select pin to the memory).
>

Well, I did not know that!  It would be interesting to try...

--Ricky

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