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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bits: what's the big deal?
Message-ID: <1991May20.155122.4428@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 15:51:22 GMT
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In article <674696625.0@blkcat.FidoNet> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes:
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>    It seems that, until 4Mb SIMMs become more reasonably priced,*
>
>* Currently, 4Mb SIMMs go for about $800 each; on 32-bit machines, SIMMs have
>to be matched in banks of four, so the minimum 4Mb SIMM configuration is 16Mb
>for $3200.
>

In fact, 4Mb SIMMs can be had for about $180 from a number of vendors (the
Chip Merchant is one that comes to mind, Technology Works another),
bringing the total cost of 16 megs onboard to about $720.  In the case of
virtual memory, I'd rather be running from RAM than from ersatz RAM (the
latter of which slows down operations too damn much for my taste).

John Heckendorn
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