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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 4 meg chips: will mix with 1 meg types?
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Date: 26 Oct 90 15:20:05 GMT
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In article <147391@kean.ucs.mun.ca> mwallack@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Michael Wallack, Political Science, MUN) writes:
>I read in the Economist Magazine that 4 meg memory chips
>are in full scale production and will be on the market
>soon...Does anyone know if these chips will be interchangeable
>with current  one meg chips in your average 386 clone?

Negative

The usability of 4M chips needs to be designed in to the product.  If the 
vendor would have done so, he would have advertised it.




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