Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!olivea!oliveb!amdahl!JUTS!duts!agh20 From: agh20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Alan G Humpherys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ??? Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 14:31:56 GMT References: <674822484.1@blkcat.FidoNet> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: agh20@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Alan Humpherys) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 31 In article <674822484.1@blkcat.FidoNet> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes: >autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes: > >LA> A previously posted article stated that Apple literature made the statement >LA> that Macs could address up to x amount of memory. More specifically, in my >LA> SE/30 hardware manual, the promise is explicitly made. The statement is >LA> made to the effect, that the SE/30 will address up to 128 megabytes of >LA> memory when denser memory becomes available. I call that an explicit >LA> promise. > > 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. > > 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.) > > > * Origin: mingo@well.sf.ca.us mingo@cup.portal.com (1:109/421.4218) You are mistaken... The SE/30 has 8 SIMM slots and that means that using 4MB SIMMs allows 32MB of physical memory! Just for your info, that is more than 24-bit mode will handle! ;-) -- ====================================================================== | Alan Humpherys agh20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com | | Murphy's Golden Rule - 'Whoever has the gold makes the rules' | ======================================================================"