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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.013410.13890@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 91 01:34:10 GMT
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swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:

>In article <1991Mar15.092920.16477@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>                                     [...]
>>>Certainly not MOST Mac IIs.  The IIcx here in my lab only has two banks of
>>>SIMMs.   It supports (at least I think it does...) up to 16Mbit SIMMs, which 
>>>would give you 32MB, if fully populated.                    ^^^
>>
>>  Hmm... you must have been thinking of beer last night Dave. 2 banks of SIMMs
>>= 8 SIMMs * 16MB each = 128MB.  A firm demonstrated just such a setup
>>at January's MacWorld (of course I wouldn't like to pay for that much memory)
>                                     [...]

>Dave clearly stated 16 Mbits, not 16 Mbytes.  If you want to take issue, you

  Whoops.  I missed the Mbit, although I can offer in my defense the
fact that I've never seen anyone quote SIMM capacities in terms of
bits.  When I go down to the local Fry's I buy 256K byte SIMMs, or 1M
byte SIMMs, or 4M byte SIMMs. 
  Anyway, the maths [<- note the spelling :-)] is still wrong.  If you
have a 16Mbit SIMM, that means there's 2MB of RAM on the SIMM.  Now,
there are EIGHT SIMM sockets on the Mac IIcx, so that would make 16MB
of RAM total, not 32.
  Also, the IIcx doesn't accept 2MB SIMM chips, only 256K, 1MB, 4MB
and 16MB SIMMs, so plugging in a 16Mbit SIMM wouldn't work.

  Who cares really?  What's a factor of 4 between friends? :-)  



  


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