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- From: 93gke@williams.edu (Just Ask The Axis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: What good are Bios RAM tests ?
- Message-ID: <1k4iivINN1v2@savoy.cc.williams.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:47:43 GMT
- References: <1jagkpINNarn@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <dmkasten.05bf@redorc.chi.il.us> <bern.728070994@kleopatra>
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- In article <bern.728070994@kleopatra> bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern) writes:
- >In <dmkasten.05bf@redorc.chi.il.us> dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag) writes:
- >>(giggle)... sorry, I cant help this..
- >
- >>Maybe you should just get an Amiga, where you just go out and buy a RAM card,
- >>drop it in your machine, turn it on, and the system configures it for you. :)
-
- >Yeah. Great. PCs use SIMMs, which continue to get better and larger. My SUNs
- >use SIMMs. X-Stations use SIMMs. PostScript Printers use SIMMs. Probably
- >most other Workstation-Level Computers use SIMMs. And your Remedy for the
- >Incompatibility Problems which MAY arise is that we stick to some Manu-
- >facturer-fixed Memory Standard, where Improvements will occur when this
- >Manufacturer thinks that "his World" is ready to support it.
-
- So I guess you think that if you took the SIMMs from from your printer
- and put them in your PC then they work. Wrong, they are just as
- incompatible as an Amiga 500 memory expansion pack (and believe me, I
- detest the Amiga). And then there's the crapola Mac which uses EIGHT
- chip SIMMS. And then there's IBM which makes their computers use a
- special type of SIMM, not the widely available PC-clone type.
- IBM is just the worst company I have ever beheld. Oh well. They lose.
-
- Greg
-
- 93gke@cs.williams.edu
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