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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Difference between RAMs used on Amiga and Mac.
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.160015.7910@agora.uucp>
Date: 11 Sep 90 16:00:15 GMT
References: <3937@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <14331@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <14331@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
:In article <3937@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE) writes:
:
:>  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. 
:
:There's no such thing as 16 or 32 bit DRAMs.  Most DRAM chips are either 1 or
:4 bits wide.

	I almost hate to jump in and confuse matters, but I notice that in
yesterdays Electronic Buyers News, Micron has finally started advertising
their 16 bit wide DRAMs. They have a 64Kx16 DRAM in either a 40 pin ZIP or
a 40 pin SOJ. The 256Kx16 versions aren't supposed to be out until the end
of the year.

:>* Yeo-Hoon Bae                                           *  Amiga   /// *
:
:Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
:      Get that coffee outta my face, put a Margarita in its place!


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