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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:44:05 EST
- From: Jeff Siegel <JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92364.174405JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Gateway 486 simm configurations
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- Gateway is selling their 486 systems with 8 meg of ram. The salesperson
- claims that the machines are shipped with two 4 Meg simms. Now given that
- a simm is 8 data bits and a parity bit, does this mean that the
- micronics motherboards gateway is using use only 16-bit access to the
- main memory? I always thought that simms had to be added in multiples of 4
- to have a 32-bit wide main memory.
-
- I know a person who bought one of these systems with 8 Meg of Ram.
- Windows 3.1 won't let him turn on the "32-bit disk access" option. Is
- this related?
-
- Jeff Siegel
-