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- From: grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann)
- Subject: Re: Memory upgrades for R4000 Indigos
- Message-ID: <grl.711852048@groucho>
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- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- References: <1992Jul17.204254.6599@microunity.com> <1992Jul21.004035.27345@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <ni8gmg8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:40:48 GMT
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- olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
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- >In <1992Jul21.004035.27345@donau.et.tudelft.nl> reinoud@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (R. Lamberts) writes:
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- >| From article <1992Jul17.204254.6599@microunity.com>, by jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein):
- >| >
- >| > The simms used in the R4k indigo are industry standard 36-bit wide
- >| > 80ns simms. The prices quoted me by SGI are $1500 for 16Meg and $3000
- >| > for 32Meg. You should be able to get about half that price from
- >| > the usual workstation memory vendors.
-
- >The net result is that we can use standard SIMMs again, and we still
- >have very good cpu-memory speeds, although a bit slower than
- >crimson (crimson has 4 way memory interleave).
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- Are the SIMMs the same as used in the new Crimson? How many pins do they
- have? Are there any special rules about installing them like having to do
- it in pairs?
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