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From: jimvons@ashtate (Jim von Schmacht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple is dumping 120ns SIMMS into SE/30s
Keywords: cheap chips
Message-ID: <815@ashton.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 23:37:05 GMT
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Reply-To: jimvons@ashton.UUCP (Jim von Schmacht)
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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How can that High Speed SE/30 work with those Dastardly Low Speed 120ns Simms?
Easy - look at the following table and be enlightened:

680x0   Clock Rate   Required Memory Speed
	    8mhz              150ns
	    16mhz             120ns         <-- HINT HINT
	    20mhz             100ns
	    25mhz              80ns
	    33mhz              60ns

The SE/30, having a 16mhz 68030 requires 120ns simms (the Mac II has had 'em
for years).  You weren't dumped on, you got what you paid for.  Faster memory
is USELESS unless the processor is fast enough to require that speed.  Oh,
and by the way, they WERE'NT cheap chips.  Remember when apple bought memory
a while back thinking prices wouldn't come down and took a bath.  Don't flame
Apple for doing business in a profitable manner (i.e. if it don't need wings
on the sucker, why put 'em there)  - or do you believe in the universal 
altruism of mankind?

-- 
Jim von Schmacht    Senior Member, Project Test Staff    Ashton Tate Corporation
Disclaimer: Standard Issue
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