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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Disk and memory questions
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Date: 28 Sep 90 21:45:18 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.193734.19067@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gooley%aquinas@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>What kind of SIMMs does a new NeXT take, anyway?  Mac SIMMs (8-bit)?  IBM-
>clone SIMMs (9-bit)?  Some godawful obscure SIMMs that are available only
>from the company (unless you want to cobble up your own from the available
>varieties?  1M or 4M or what?

You can use either 9 or 8 bit SIMMs with the NeXT, however not
intermixed. If you use 9 bits you should be able to have parity check
running on your system. The advantage you have with parity check is
that you know when your data has been corrupted in computer memory.

The access time should be as far as I know 100ns or faster. I'd
recommend to buy 80ns or faster chips, so chances are you can use them
for a while. The price difference is small anyway.

Ronald
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