Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!dinapoli From: dinapoli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ron DiNapoli) Subject: Re: Memory Limitations on IIsi Message-ID: <1991May21.183808.9266@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY References: <43546@netnews.upenn.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 21 May 91 18:38:08 GMT In article <43546@netnews.upenn.edu> meckert@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael Eckert) writes: > >Since accessing large amounts of memory seems to be >so important (see the Dirty (Non 32-bit Clean) ROM >issue), I have a question. I have a MAC IIsi which has >only four SIMM slots, which means that at present >I can have a maximum of 17 MB (4 x 4MB SIMMS + 1MB) >on the computer. Will I be able to pop in >16 MB SIMMS when they become available? Or are there >hardware limitations on memory access? This is an important >question for a budding power user of the future. > >Michael > >meckert@eniac.seas.upenn.edu From Apple's "Macintosh IIsi Developer Note" (10/5/90), page 16, the text reads: "The Bank B expansion memory can contain either four 256KB SIMMS (made from 1-MBit fast page mode parts), four 1 MB SIMMs, four 4 MB SIMMs, or four 16 MB SIMMs." Ron D.