Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!casc.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@casc.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: RAMs for the A3000 Keywords: ZIPs or SIPPs Message-ID: <1991May22.211639.8633@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 22 May 91 21:16:39 GMT References: <1991May17.170845.8740@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu In article johns@dworkin.Amber.COM (John Silvia) writes: >STATIC COLUMN chips offer more storage, and greater speed, and are more >expensive than PAGE MODE chips. Average Static Column pricing is around >$35-$42 per chip. Why are SC chips faster than PM? Non-hardware-inquiring minds want to know. Is it because they happen to be larger chips (1Kx4 instead of 256x4), or is it for some more nefarious reason? -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 "The final twitch of "Political Correctness" grand peur has to do with the age-old fear of antinomian beastliness, lesbians holding black masses over copies of Derrida and so forth." -- Alexander Cockburn