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- From: pauls@ll.mit.edu (Richard Pauls)
- Subject: Re: IIci memory configuration question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.194829.18143@ll.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab
- References: <11594@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:48:29 GMT
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- In article <11594@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> lyons@scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons) writes:
- >I am getting a IIci with 5MB. I assumed there would be two banks of
- >memory, one with 4x256K and one with 4x1M. It was my intention to remove
- >the four 256K SIMMs and replace them with four 4MB SIMMs, giving me 20MB.
- >I don't have any technical info on memory configurations in the IIci, but
- >according to one of the detailed ads for a RAM chip company in the back of
- >MacWeek, this isn't allowed. :^(
- >
- >Could some kind soul who knows please post the memory configuration
- >options for the IIci. Is 20MB an allowed configuration? (BTW, I am
- >planning to use the Radius VideoVision card as my display card, so I don't
- >have to worry about memory contention by the built-in display controller,
- >right?)
- >
- >Jim Lyons [][] Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- >lyons@scri.fsu.edu [][] Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
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- I have a IIci and 20MB of RAM, just as you described.
- 4 1MB SIMMS and 4 4MB SIMMS. It works just fine, no problems at all
- to my knowledge. Need 32 bit addressing, of course.
- --Rich
-