Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Upgrading 256K VGA to 512K VGA card Message-ID: <3370005@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 31 Dec 90 03:04:40 GMT References: <62M^M8#@rpi.edu> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 18 > $Two 256Kx4 RAM chips only give you 256K x 4 / 8 = 128K byte RAM. > > Wrong. One 256Kx4 RAM chip gives you 256Kbitsx4/8=128Kbyte RAM. Two > 256Kx4 RAM chips give you 256Kx4x2=256Kx8=256Kbytes. > Oops ! Me and my fat finger. I forgot the Two in the Two chip. So, you are right, it is 256K byte. I apologize. Regards, . .. ... .- -> -->## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include