Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!milton!hardy!cyliao From: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 256k simms Keywords: memory Message-ID: <7759@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 18 Sep 90 23:39:43 GMT References: Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Reply-To: cyliao@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 23 In article grio@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Daniel L. Grillo) writes: >||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 Funny, when I issue the "m" command under monitor, I got message like "... 4 megs RAM in page mode"... however, these are 1 meg simms. Can anybody explain more of these nibble mode/page mode? Thanx. cyliao@wam.umd.edu o NeXT : I put main frame power on two chips. @epsl.umd.edu o people: We put main flame power on two guys. @bagend.eng.umd.edu o :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx.xxx (reserved) o RC + Apple // + Classic Music + NeXT = cyliao