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- From: kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan)
- Subject: Re: 1x9 vs. 1x3 memory
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.221922.23167@philabs.philips.com>
- Sender: news@philabs.philips.com (Mr. C. News)
- Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
- References: <1992Sep9.180601.11141@unislc.uucp> <1992Sep11.164957.5227@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <18uu65INNo5v@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:19:22 GMT
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- In article <18uu65INNo5v@agate.berkeley.edu> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- >(stuff deleted about 3 chip and 9 chip 1 meg simms)
- >>
- >>It should make no difference whatsoever: both types of simms are 1MB * 9 bits,
- >>just packaged differently. The result should be transparent to the computer.
- >
- >different banks. If you put 3 and 9's in the same bank, there might be
- >a problem because the the computer might try to register them in two
- >different ways.
- >
-
- I just upgraded mine, 1 bank with 9 chip set and the other with 3 chip
- set, so far (2 weeks) no problem.
-