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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT software size
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Date: 10 May 91 14:57:09 GMT
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In article <48758@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:

   You forgot to mention the little detail that you have to buy four at a time
   to expand a 32-bit machine...

Actually, I didn't know that.

   Since you brought up memory speeds, I ought to mention that I saw some
   discussion on comp.sys.next a while back about the NeXT using 100ns RAMs.
   Is that true?  Is it just NeXT saving some $$$ or does memory faster than
   that have any benefits on the NeXT?  I believe the discussion was about
   what type of RAMs to use when adding memory, but it was a while back...

No, 100ns RAM is all that is required, and faster memory does not
increase the speed of the NeXT.

-Mike