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From: weiss@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???
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Date: 21 May 91 19:19:51 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
>SIMMs are 4Mb.  Unless I'm mistaken, the SE/30 (like the SE) only has four
>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.

As it turns out, you are mistaken on two counts.  First, the SE/30 has two
banks of four slots (8 total) giving you a grand total with 4MB SIMMs of...
(*chunk-CHING*) 32MB.  Secondly, the largest commercially available SIMMs
(for a few weeks now) are 16MB SIMMs, bringing the current grand total for
the SE/30 up to...(*chunk-CHING*) 128MB.  (granted, 16MB SIMMs aren't cheap
yet, but that's what they said about 1MB SIMMs not that many years ago).
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