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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: RAM Chip Speed?
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Date: 5 Jul 90 18:32:12 GMT
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In article <26729@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes

>If you think about it, you'd realize that this can't possibly be true!  The
>speed rating on a chip is only the guaranteed worst speed the chip will
>display.  A chip rated at 150ns might actually respond within 120ns, or 100ns,
>or 117.5ns, or any other speed <=150ns.  Thus there is no possible way to get
>SIMMS that are "the same speed".

Why don't you talk to the apple engineer who wrote the tech note on the
subject?  It may be misinformation, but it comes right out of the tech notes--
#176, written by Cameron Birse...
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