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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: why larger SIMMS in bank B on IIci ?
Message-ID: <10416@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 91 19:35:11 GMT
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In article <4140@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
>Hi. I just read in the April MacWorld that one ought to put
>the larger capacity SIMMS in bank B on a IIci for maximum
>performance.  I have a 5 meg IIci and haven't yet checked to
>see if I'm following this rule. Could someone explain the
>reasoning behind this.  How much difference in speed is one
>likely to observe?  Thanks,

One of the banks is used by the on-board video.  If you're not
using the builtin video port, it shouldn't make any difference,
since RAM timing wouldn't be affected.

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