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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???
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Date: 21 May 91 19:15:33 GMT
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In article <674822484.1@blkcat.FidoNet> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes:

>    Yes, but has that time come?  Assume that the largest commercially available

Yes.

>SIMMs are 4Mb.  Unless I'm mistaken, the SE/30 (like the SE) only has four

You are.  The SE/30 has 8 SIMM slots.  To help keep it straight in your mind,
think of the SE/30 as a Mac II in a compact case rather than an SE with an
030.

>SIMM slots.  Since there are no NuBus video cards or other complications, your
>SE/30 should be able to address all 16Mb of physical RAM in 24-bit mode.

The ROMs take up 1 meg of that space. I think the limit is 14 meg for the
SE/30.  I dunno where the other meg went. 

>    Apple won't be put to the test until the next generation of SIMMs (16Mb?)
>becaome available in a year or two.  (There's even reports that 64Mbit chips
>will be out by 1995.)

One company has already got 16 meg chips that will fit.  I won't gripe if 
64 meggers don't work.  Apple made no claims about those, and besides, I don't
expect more than 5 years out of my SE/30.