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From: newbery@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Santiago Newbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: >4MB SIMM sticks
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Date: 6 Jun 91 21:31:42 GMT
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In article <276@bria.UUCP>, mike@bria.UUCP (mike.stefanik) writes:
|>In an article, jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips) writes:
|>|Currently 1MB and 4MB SIMM sticks are readily available.  Does anyone know
|>|where I can get my hands on 8MB or 16MB SIMM sticks?  If they don't already
|>|exist (which I don't think they do), when will they?  Any contacts?  Thanks.
|>
|>Perhaps I misunderstand (which isn't unlikely :-) but I thought that the
|>SIMM spec maxed out at 4Mb?
|>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|>-- 
|>Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
|>Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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|>If MS-DOS didn't exist, who would UNIX programmers have to make fun of?
             
Not so, my HP EISA 486 has sockets that will accept 1/2/4/8 Mb SIMMs.
However, these sockets have 72 contacts, and the memory organization
is 1 Meg * 36 bits for the 4 Mb SIMM. (they are word-wide memories, so
that is used as 1 Meg * 32 data bits, plus 1 Meg * 4 parity bits).
HP does list 8 Mb SIMMs in its catalog, but they are ridiculously
priced at $5300 / stick !!!	(:->
I'm sure there must be much better sources...

N.B. Most PC's use the older byte-wide SIMM's which are organized
as X Mb * 9 bits.


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