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- Path: sparky!uunet!overload!dillon
- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Upgrade to NextTurbo
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <dillon.0lj8@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <dillon.0l89@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <1992Aug13.195438.26752@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 11:08:14 PST
- Organization: Not an Organization
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Aug13.195438.26752@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- >In article <dillon.0l89@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US
- >(Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >> >
- >> >Of course, all this is in the FAQ, not that anyone would
- >> >bother to read it before bathering...
- >>
- >> *where* in the FAQ? I missed that part or I wouldn't have asked!
- >>
- >
- >NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo
- >(68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo
- >(68040-33MHz), newer NeXTstations (68040-25MHz), and
- >newer NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz):
- >
- >These systems have only 4 SIMM slots, but they can take
- >double-sided SIMMs. SIMMs must be installed in groups of
- >two in these machines.
- >
- >Use 72-pin 4, 8, 16, or 32 MB SIMMs with 100 ns minimum
- >access time. For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs.
-
- Yes, that's what I read.... but it is extremely obscure. It doesn't
- say WHY using faster SIMMs results in faster performance, it doesn't
- say where the break point is... you can't even GET 100ns SIMMs
- anymore!! They START at 80ns (100ns cost the same or more then 80ns).
- The NeXT is the only machine I've ever heard of that has a programmable
- waitstate for it's dynamic ram access. It really makes no sense to
- take an already slow machine and slow it down further...
-
- -Matt
-
- >--
- >Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- >Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- >New Haven, CT
- >nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
- >
-
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