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- From: John_Graves@next.com (John Graves)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: NeXTstation Color simms
- Keywords: next computer RAM
- Message-ID: <6147@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:56:57 GMT
- References: <UfAX2w=0Bwwb44VzID@transarc.com>
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
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- In article <UfAX2w=0Bwwb44VzID@transarc.com> Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com writes:
- > nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- > > 32 MB is the limit of the first color stations.
- >
- > I've heard this stated before, but I've also heard that it's merely a
- > form factor problem: the slots are too close together for 8MB SIMMS
- > to fit in them.
- >
-
- The original NeXTSTATION and NeXTSTATION Color computers are limited to 32 MB.
- The cannot address any more RAM. That was all we designed them for and 4
- megabit DRAMs were the maximum density available at the time. (32 MB used to
- be considered a lot of RAM.)
-
- Turbo computers can address up to 128 MB.
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- John Graves
- Hardware Engineering
- NeXT Computer, Inc
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