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From: lindy!romeo@lindy.stanford.edu (Patrick Goebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: So what about those 4-Mb SIMMs?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 2 Mar 90 02:41:10 GMT
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Judging by recent postings on this bboard, 4-Mb SIMMs are available and
come relatively cheap (i.e. approx. $500/chip or $125/Mb).  Does this mean
I can simply replace the 8 X 1-Mb SIMMs on a SPARCstation 330 CPU board
(for example) with 8 X 4-Mb ones?

Our Sun sales rep says that Sun's 4-Mb chips will be physically taller
than the 1-Mb version and might therefore only fit on a memory expansion
board and not on the CPU board.  Is this true of all (reputable) 4-Mb
SIMMs on the market?

In addition, our sales rep claims that Sun's 4-Mb SIMM upgrade will
require a PROM swap as well.  Can anyone verify this and elaborate if
true?

I'd kill for answers to these questions, but I'd settled for a few
responses.  Many thanks in advance!

Patrick Goebel--romeo@lindy.stanford.edu
CASBS--Budding SysAdmin