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Subject: Re: Memory Chip War
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Date: 26 Feb 89 23:27:32 GMT
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In article <504@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
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>A related subject:  SE owners have it a lot easier in terms of
>upgrades, since they only have to modify two SIMM slots.  Are the Macs
>of the future going to go back to this configuration?  As it stands,
>
>David Elliott		...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce
>"Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash"  -- Eno

Not if they are going to use the 68030 (or 020) which seems to be the case.
(SE/30, macIIcx,...).
You have to upgrade your macIIs or SE/30 using 4 simms because they are true
32 bit machines (each simms have normally 8 chips (sometimes 9 but parity
checking isn't used on the mac), so you need 4 simms = 32 chips (1 chip per
bit is required for interleave memory)).
So expect in the futur to be the same as the current macIIs are (unless they
come with a low cost 68000....)

Alain Dumesny---