Re: Adding system memory to a ti85
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Re: Adding system memory to a ti85
You sure? The Z80 has a 16-bit address range, allowing it to manage 65536
bytes total I believe.
At 07:51 PM 7/22/98 -0400, Ray Kremer wrote:
>I would say no. The Z80 processor is only capable of managing 24k of memory
>at a time, which is what the 85 already has. When TI produced the 86 with
>96k of memory, they had to write a complex "RAM paging" system to handle it
>all. The usual method of getting more memory for the 85 is to attach a
>module with a RAM chip to the linking port. Read this for a few links:
>http://rhf.bradley.edu/~rkremer/tifaq.htm#13.
>
>>Is it possible to add memory to a ti85 by directly soddering a chip onto the
>>existing one? Or what about directly replacing it with another. This is
>>possible on HP calcs and I wondered if the same thing can be done to a TI.
>
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