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- From: stutheit@herbie.unl.edu (00117769@bigred)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: A couple questions about SIMMS and Microbotics accelerator...
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 03:15:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Summary: Bla!
- Keywords: Bla!
-
- Hi,
-
- I own a micorbotix M1230 XA accelerator card and want to buy ram
- for it. It has a single SIMM slot. However, I don't want to waste
- money buying the wrong kind of SIMM.
-
- My first question, is can the M1230 XA accept either parity or non-parity
- SIMMS? Or must it have only one of those two kinds? I have read that
- 'parity' means error-checking. Also, I've learned that some computer
- motherboards which have SIMM slots, can take either parity or
- non-parity SIMMS without trouble, but that error checking would be
- disabled if a parity SIMM was installed. Would the M1230 XA do this,
- or would it make full use of the advantages of a parity SIMM? Which
- brings me to another question, what advantage is had by using a parity
- SIMM, what difference does it make for the user??? Also, what in the
- world is an 'EDO SIMM'??
-
- My final question about SIMMS, is what difference does it make how
- many chips are on it, what is the importance of this? I ask this,
- because some advertisements for SIMMS, would list a bunch of SIMMS you
- could get, with the exact same capacity, but they have different
- numbers of chips on them.
-
- Any imformation you could tell me would be great!
-
- Thanks!
-
- --
- Angie Stutheit
- stutheit@herbie.unl.edu
-