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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mixing DRAM speeds
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Date: 23 Mar 90 21:36:32 GMT
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In article <2340003@hpldsla.HP.COM> djw@hpldsla.HP.COM writes:
|A friend of mine just added a 2 meg bank of 1megx1bit  80ns DRAM
|to his 80286, NEAT chip set clone.  The  computer  already had a
|1/2 meg bank of 256kx1bit 120ns DRAM.

From what I can tell, the so-called NEAT chip set can not handle this.
You need 36 chips of one kind before you can put in a different
kind. This is due to their bank interleave "feature".

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