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Article #39883Re: Unexpandable megas
From: Chad Leigh "Leave It!"
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 18:41
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 18:41
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Regarding board changes. It is probably quite common for manufacturers to change the physical board designs in products. I know (have seen with my own two eyes) that there were at least two totally different versions (in terms of layout of chips etc) of 520/1040STf(m) motherboards -- and I've heard of at least one more version. The two boards were totally different - RAM and ROM location, CPU location, etc. I doubt Atari changed the Mega 2 layout to purposely cripple it. That makes no sense at all. The Mega 2 layout was probably changed to fix something, to make use of different but functionally same parts, or to decrease manufacturing costs. Chad DEC has no opinions ---------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!norge.enet.dec.com!chad From: chad@norge.enet.dec.com (Chad Leigh "Leave It!") Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas Message-ID: <7126@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 27 Dec 89 18:41:48 GMT References: <23726@brunix.UUCP> 8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <370009@acf5.NYU.EDU> <25353@cup.portal.com> Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Reply-To: chad@norge.enet.dec.com () Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 19