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From: tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Difference between RAMs used on Amiga and Mac.
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Date: 9 Sep 90 20:12:10 GMT
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  Hi, I am one curious Amiga user who has a question about type of ram
chips that computers use...
  I understand that there's 16bit and 32bit rams available, and to get
the full performance out of Accelerators(020/030 based), you NEED 32 bit
memory. So far so good, BUT they cost much more than the average 16bit
chips used on 2000. So, ok, I guess it's 32bit, and it has faster access
time, so that's reasonable. Then I talked to this guy who used to own
Mac SE, and now he owns Mac SE/30(which is 030 based). He also claims
that there is no such a thing as 16/32 bit. On Mac, they all use the
same type of chips(SIMM), the only difference if that faster machine
requires faster memory. So why doesn't Mac require more expensive 32 bit
memory and still able to perform reasonably? Is it the way these
machines are designed? I heard that 32bit processors are VERY slow with
only 16bit memory.
Any help would be appreciated.



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* Yeo-Hoon Bae                                           *  Amiga   /// *
* tinyguy@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca                            *   2000  ///  *
* tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca                            *     \\\///   *
* Amiga2000 + 3MB + 48MB HD + KX-P1124 + DiamondScan     *      \XX/    *
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