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- From: amn@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Anthony Naggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: "fast" page-mode SIMMs? What's the diff?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.004439.12387@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 00:44:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.230809.12952@microsoft.com>
- Reply-To: amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk
- Organization: Brighton Polytechnic, England
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- Bcc: ericsa@microsoft.com
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- In article <1992Aug17.230809.12952@microsoft.com>, Eric Sassman asks:
- > I'd like to upgrade my SIMMs. My motherboard manual says to get "fast page-
- > mode" SIMMs. I called IC express, and they don't carry "fast" page-mode,
- > just "regular" page-mode SIMMs. Are fast page-mode SIMMs uncommon?
- > Unfortunately, IC express didn't have anytone I could speak to that knew.
- > What is the diff between "fast" page-mode and "regular" page-mode SIMMs?
-
- I think your manual just means fast "page-mode SIMMs", as page-mode is a fast
- way of accessing consecutive memory locations. Allowing upto 256, 512 bytes,
- depending upon chip size & memory interleave, starting and finishing limited
- by 256 (512,..) byte boundaries, to be read at 3 times the normal rate. This
- is normally used to fill cache, etc..
-
- So I, for one, would just ensure that the SIMMs support page-mode.
-
- Regards,
- --
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