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- From: jtw@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (jui-tai.wang)
- Subject: Re: Micronics (Gateway) VL-Bus motherboards don't accept regular SIMMs
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:40:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.164048.24358@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <mcdonald.633@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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- One source claimed G2K use 36(32?) bit SIMM. "Normally" people (include myself)
- think of SIMM being 9 bit SIMM. Advantage of 36(32?) bit SIMM is that you know
- for sure your memory bus is 32 bits ( most likely). My 16 bit 386SX use
- 9 bit SIMM, since the memory bus is only 16 bit (and thus every time if
- I add memory, I need to add 2 SIMM at least).
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- Other way to look at: you need 4 1Mx9 SIMM to give you 4MB of 32 bit memory,
- but you need only 1 4Mx36(32?) SIMM to get the same 4MB 32 bit memory.
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- Richard
- disclaimer: above does not represent my employer's opinion at all.
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