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From: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SIMM chips...what I need to know
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.055615.13291@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 90 05:56:15 GMT
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In article <1990Nov17.223557.17504@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham) writes:
>I am about to buy a ZENITH 386SX Model 40 with 2 MB RAM on motherboard
>using 2 1 MB SIMM chips.  When I buy more SIMMs to add to the motherboard, are
>there different kinds of 1 MB SIMM chips (besides clock speeds of 70,80,120ns)?
>
>--
There are 8 bit SIMMS (Macintosh's, etc.) and 9 bit SIMMS (for P.C.
Clones with parity checking). I don't know of any PC clones without
parity checking.

There are also SIPPS, which of course are not SIMMS.

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