Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!grio From: grio@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Daniel L. Grillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 256k simms Keywords: memory Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 90 00:22:11 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: psuvax1.cs.psu.edu In article gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) writes: >I can get a few 256k simms from some macs which had their memory upgraded. >I'm thinking about putting 8 of them in my 8 meg NeXT to get 10 meg. >Does anybody know if this will work? > >Dan >-- >Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu >UUCP: {bpa,cbmvax}!swatsun!gessel With the same idea in mind, I asked NeXT this question a while back. The answer... |From Carlos_Salinas@NeXT.COM Tue Aug 14 13:29:34 1990 |To: grio@cs.psu.edu |Subject: Re: 256k SIMMS |Cc: cal_thixton@NeXT.COM | |Cal forwarded this question to us: | ||Cal- will 100ns 256k simms work in the current cube? ||Dan | |The answer is: |There are two kind of SIMM's: nibble and page mode. 256K nibble mode simm's |suppose to work, but not the page mode. However the industrial standard is |page mode (e.g. Apple SIMM's are page mode). Also I am not aware if anyone |in NeXT has ever tested out this support. | |Carlos Salinas |NeXT Technical Support -- Dan Grillo grio@cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!grio