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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.graphics,comp.arch
Subject: Re: New RISC Graphics for Macs (and other Quest's)
Message-ID: <39740@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 20:16:08 GMT
References: <29560@amdcad.AMD.COM> <22297@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <7324@goofy.Apple.COM> <39712@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Mar22.052024.236@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <1990Mar22.052024.236@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>After looking at the product blurb with a photo of the motherboard, I can
>assure you the SIMMs in the IIfx are 64 pinners.
>
>I think it has to do with the fact that the previous SIMMs don't have enough
>pins to go above 4 Megs, and they want the IIfx to handle 16 meg SIMMs when
>they come out.
>
All 30-pin simms have 12 address bits, which allow 16Meg chips. The 64 pinners
allow separate data-in & out lines, for dummp&run writes
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