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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12080 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > I remember having some very interesting arguments with one of the Genesi employees
    > regarding the feasibility of adding more RAM to the Efika and the ultimate answer was
    > that it would be a violation of the TOS of the device to hack the firmware to accept more
    > RAM, it would be almost impossible to find the right kind of RAM with regard to the
    > timing, and if we wanted Genesi to do the work, it would cost approx. $30,000 US
    > dollars to modify the firmware and IIRC, it would require a new production run of
    > Efika boards as well, though I disputed this last part, as I don't see why our existing
    > boards could not be modified with the additional RAM, as who would design the PCB
    > to "NOT" work with the full complement of RAM that the 5200b CPU and other components
    > on the board could handle?

    boot_wb in another thread agrees with you, at least regarding expanding the RAM to 256 MiB:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9655&forum=3&start=7
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