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From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Low-Cost Macintosh
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Date: 14 Feb 90 16:25:09 GMT
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In article <1478@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> rcstse@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Stephan Eggermont) writes:
>sklein@cdp.UUCP writes:
>If you want a low cost mac, you are not going to use any SIMM's.
>Slots are more expensive than just soldering them on the PCB 
>Instead you use 4 bit wide 1M4 ram chips, 4 for a 2 megabyte 68000 machine,
>or (I would like that) 8 for a 4 megabyte 68030/40 machine.

This might be true if 1meg x 4 chips were inexpensive or plentiful.
The Japanese hope that they won't be cheap for quite a while.  Right
now, 1 meg chips are the ones to use, if low-cost is important.  It's
cheaper to build a motherboard with only 30 holes in it, plug a SIMM
socket into it, and pop a SIMM into that than to put 160 holes in the
motherboard, and plug 8 DIPs and 8 caps in.  And saves space too.  And
can be designed to take 4 meg SIMMs later.
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