1-10 Introduction i I Amiga expansion. The PC slots are used in conjunction with the Bridgeboard option (described below). slots; the other two are the two joint Amiga—PC/AT slots described above for ^ The Amiga 2000 provides four PC compatible slots. Two are dedicated PC/XT j j PC-XT/AT Compatible Expansion Slots f ( well as I/O or interface boards or a hard disk controller. tion on the system configuration. These slots can accept memory expansions as feature known as AutoConfig, which continuously provides complete informa- \ i additional expansion slots, including five AMIGA bus expansion slots, two of which also have PC/AT connectors.
All expansion slots are controlled by a In addition to CPU and video expansion slots, the Amiga 2000 provides seven \~~ > \ s Amiga Expansion Slots methods, such as the RAM disk schemes used by many other microcomputers. since the A2000 does not have to resort to time-consuming indirect accessing The Amiga 2000 is internally expandable up to 9 MBytes, and the operating system directly addresses it all. This results in a considerable speed advantage, Internal Memory Expansion it. at 14 MHz and a math co-processor.
An accelerator board, inserted into the expansion slot, could replace the standard 68000 CPU, or work in parallel with extensions such as an accelerator board, containing a Motorola 68020™ running The Amiga 2000 has an internal CPU slot, which can be used to add system Microprocessor Add-ons Among the most important attributes of the Amiga 2000 are its versatile internal expansion capabilities, which include the following. u Expandability