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Being IEE compatible of course it could use 16 or 24bit addressing. It could be stocked with 256K X1 or 64K X1 RAM chips. There were 9 chips per block. This allow for a parity bit per byte. A parity error could be returned on the S100 lines NMI*, the 8 VI'* lines or ERROR*. There were a number of I/O port options to query the nature of the error and reset it.
As with the 256K board, memory was organized in 2 blocks, each occupying 1/2 of the address space. There was an S-100 phantom disable which could be disabled by a switch on board. There was a switch also to select A0 or A0* as the most significant byte on the bus. Access time was very fast, 175 nsec from SMEMR or pSYNC high. This allowed a Z80 to get to 6MHz or the 8086 and 68K familys to get to 8MHz.
The manual for this board can be obtained here.
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