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From: shatara@memit.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GSRam chips
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Date: 2 Dec 89 18:33:27 GMT
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>In article <6009@lindy.Stanford.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>	They aren't 32K per chip, unless the universe just inverted and you
>>can say that 256K*1 = 32*8.
> 
>Note that the chips are 256Kbitx1 (not byte).  So, if you take 256x1024/8, you
>do indeed get 32K per chip.
> 

>The AE gsRAM manual I have seems to imply that one could plug in single chips
>into the board with no problem...fact or fiction?
> 

FICTION!

256K Chips are organized as an array that's  1 bit Wide and 256K Bits long.  
You need 8 BITS TO MAKE UP A BYTE.....hence 8 chip sets yield 256K BYTES. 

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