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Subject: Re: The LC vs. IIsi (CPUs)
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.094617.517@otago.ac.nz>
From: michael@otago.ac.nz
Date: 12 Jun 91 09:46:16 NZDT
References: <1991Jun5.175401.14345@sequent.com>   <44397@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <44397@netnews.upenn.edu>, hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) writes:

> Perhaps, god forbid, they had the consumer in mind as well.
> 
> Perhaps, with a target in the lowend market, they wanted to allow the
> consumer to upgrade the machine without laying out for four simms.

Actually it wouldn't have been difficult to deal with that as well: just have
the bit that tells the CPU whether its talking to a 16-bit or a 32-bit port for
the DRAM configurable, either by way of a jumper on the board or better yet in
software when the ROM starts up. So you could have two or four SIMMs
according to your budget, although folks might complain about the slowdown
when they swapped from 4 1M SIMMs to 2 4M SIMMs - imagine all the messages
saying "You mean I put more memory in this thing and now it runs *slower*?"...


Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand

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