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From: tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Memory types
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Date: 9 Jan 91 06:57:38 GMT
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Hi everyone,

   This may be a silly question, but I am puzzled with
   the type of memory chips used on various different
   computers. More specifically, I am comparing between
   the SIMMS/SIPPS used by 32 bit Amiga system against
   the 030 Macs or 386's. From what I know, they can get
   perfectly reasonable performance by using the normal
   70/80ns 1x8 SIMMS which are CHEAP, but why the heck
   does all 32bit Amiga uses more expensive chips? Is it
   not possible to design them to use the standard SIMMS,
   like what 386's use ? A guy who owns Mac SE/30 claims
   that you can get 32bit fetches from memory by arranging
   the 1x8 SIMMS appropriately....
   Any explanations would be appreciated.


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| Yeo-Hoon Bae      tinyguy@homer.cs.mcgill.ca              | Amiga   /// |
| Dept. Computer Science, McGill University, Canada         |  2000  ///  |
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