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Re: The Great Falcon Debate

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From: Marinos Yannikos
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:00
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leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
: In article <1g97i7INNhfr@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
: >Leo, try getting your numbers right - the Falcons DSP has a bit more
: >than 48k of memory to use!
: 
: OK, so it may not be 48K, but it is something like that (Note:  I am
: talking about the total X and Y ram, not the P ram which can only be used
: to store the actual program).  If you are going to nit-pick over details then
: you could at least say how much private RAM it does have so I know next time.
:
You should buy a DSP56K manual... Perhaps you'll need it soon! ;-)
Anyway, in the Falcon all 32Kwords of RAM can be used both as X/Y and
P-RAM. And 32Kwords of 24 bit each = 96Kbyte.

-MY
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