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- From: mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: VXL-30 ramboard
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 02:37:57 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.210127.10887@coe.montana.edu> <65472@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep8.220448.6654@coe.montana.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep8.220448.6654@coe.montana.edu> ieeu0025@cs.montana.edu (Craig Keenan) writes:
- >This is a pain not a good. If you want more memory in your board, you have to
- >take out and trash or sell at a loss 2mb of memory you already own! that is not
- >good. If they were crafty they should have used the 1X4s (dense chips) and
- >had a jumper to select 2,4, or 8 megabyte configurations. That way someone
- >could just add more memory to the existing memory and take no losses.
-
- No can do. Work it out. 1Mbit x 4. To get 32 bit wide memory, you need
- to use 32 / 4 = 8 chips. 1Mbit * 4 * 8 = 32 Mbits = 4 Mbytes. So the
- minimum memory that you could add using 1Mx4s is 4 MBytes. The 2 MByte
- configuration requires less dense devices.
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