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From: tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 32 bit memory???
Keywords: 32 bit memory is there really a difference????
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.070347.15673@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 17 Feb 91 07:03:47 GMT
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In article <1991Feb17.050114.9629@DMI.USherb.CA> ig29@terre (Robert Gagnon) writes:
>In article <anderson.666764399@mrcnext> anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Friend says that there really isn't such a thing as "32-bit" memory.
>>
>If you have a 32 bit processor, you really want to have 32 bit memory (that is,
>memory that is accessed via a 32 bit bus) to let the processor run at full
>speed.
>

So for example, can you use a normal 1x8 SIMMS modules of 80ns, to be accessed
by a 32bit processor? Or does it need other SIMMS ?



-TG