Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!wb1.cs.cmu.edu!avie From: avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: 64MB in cubes Keywords: 64MB RAM in NeXT cubes Message-ID: <7163@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 1 Dec 89 05:11:54 GMT References: <4283@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <21301@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <21736@brunix.UUCP> <21795@brunix.UUCP> <9374@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Distribution: na Organization: NeXT, Inc. Lines: 21 In article <9374@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes: >Lets all be sure we're right on this one. As a test, our group >bought 20 4 MB SIMM boards from the Chip Merchant. They worked >fine in a MACIIci (030, 25Mhz) but the Cube froze up solid and >refused to boot. 64MB of ram definitely works in a cube using 4 megabit DRAMS. We have several 4 MB SIMMs that we have used here in software engineering and most definitely tested a 64MB configuration. I have no idea why the SIMMs from the Chip Merchant didn't work. Perhaps there was a timing problem? The ones we have were built in our factory and work fine (I don't remember who the actual chip vendor was though). Although 4 MB SIMMs are not on our current price lists I'm sure if there was enough interest (and enough people willing to spend the still high costs for the 4 MB parts) we would probably make them available. -- Avadis Tevanian, Jr. (Avie) Manager, System Software NeXT, Inc. avie@NeXT.COM