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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What kind of memory for 1230XA accellerator?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 17:51:20 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Jerry M. Robinson (dvideo@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : -- When I did the 1230XA design, I knew that 30 pin modules were on the
- : way out... for the Mac as well as the PC. It was important that people
- : be able to upgrade their memory over time and not have to rely on some
- : kind of *oddball* standard. My examples in the market at the time were
- : GVP, with their *own standard* of how to do the memory. I actually was
- : in a verbal dispute with a GVPer about what SIMMs to use... Time has
- : shown my position of *use the standard SIMM* correct. Yes, just one
- : SIMM too... Some of the 72 pin SIMMs are very long & wouldn't fit....
- : I knew people would be *trading up*.
-
- Bless you. :)
-
- : >doesn't say anyth8ing about an additional RAM slot. just the one.
-
- : -- just one SIMM, but as flexible as possibe for capacity and speed.
-
- : -- sysinfo measures speed *bogusly*. A better measure (and certainly
- : more accurate) is AIBB.
-
- Agreed. :)
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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