Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ganymede!terre!ig29 From: ig29@terre (Robert Gagnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 32 bit memory??? Keywords: 32 bit memory is there really a difference???? Message-ID: <1991Feb17.185635.8146@DMI.USherb.CA> Date: 17 Feb 91 18:56:35 GMT References: <1991Feb17.050114.9629@DMI.USherb.CA> <1991Feb17.070347.15673@cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: usenet@DMI.USherb.CA (Pour Courrier usenet) Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: terre In article <1991Feb17.070347.15673@cs.mcgill.ca> tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE) writes: >In article <1991Feb17.050114.9629@DMI.USherb.CA> ig29@terre (Robert Gagnon) writes: >>In article 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 ? > 1meg by 8 SIMMS could be used with a 32 bit processor (and bus). In fact, I think they ARE used with the GVP accelerators. Robert // \X/ Gagnon