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From: rock@lighthouse.com (Roger Rock Rosner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 64MB in cubes
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.172301.8669@lighthouse.com>
Date: 2 Dec 89 17:23:01 GMT
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In article <7163@pt.cs.cmu.edu> avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) writes:

>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).

Very interesting.  Some questions:

- Do all the SIMMs in a NeXT have to be the same size?  Or can we
stick 4 meg SIMMs into our remaining slots and leave the current 1
megs?

- What precisely are the chips that work?

- What are good prices for these chips?

Thanks,
Roger Rosner
Lighthouse Design
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