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- From: h235_003@ccvax.ucd.ie (Ronan Mullally)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3-chip vs 9-chip SIMMs?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.021021.50038@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 02:10:21 GMT
- References: <Bz9M37.I40@inews.Intel.COM>
- Organization: University College Dublin
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- In article <Bz9M37.I40@inews.Intel.COM>, sthe@td2cad.intel.com (Siang-Chun The) writes:
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- > Which is the older technology: 3-chip SIMMs or 9-chip SIMMs? My PC
- > takes 3-chip SIMMs, and I have noticed that 9-chip SIMMs are far more
- > easily available in the marketplace. Are 3-chip SIMMs an older
- > technology, and likely to disappear from the market in the near
- > future? Or are they simply newer, and not as widespread yet in the market?
- >
- > Are 3-chip SIMMs incompatible with 9-chip SIMMs?
-
- Well I use 2 x 9-chip and 2 x 3-chip SIMMS (4 MB in total) without any
- trouble... maybe I'm just lucky <grin>
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