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- From: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg)
- Subject: Re: 1x9 vs. 1x3 memory
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.105007@cs.utwente.nl>
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- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <1992Sep11.164957.5227@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <18uu65INNo5v@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep13.225000.10048@ee.ubc.ca> <190r26INN188@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 08:50:07 GMT
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- In article <190r26INN188@agate.berkeley.edu>, shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- |> >>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'm not quite clear on what is meant by "register". I have 3 and 9 chips
- |> >sitting on different banks, so I'm OK. I've heard some people are having
- |> >problems when they are on the same bank. What exactly doesn't the computer
- |> >like?
- |> >
- |>
- |> I don't remember anymore. It was about two weeks ago and
- |>
- |> a nice memory expert was explaining it to me. I guess I
- |>
- |> really wasn't apying attention because I was still trying
- |>
- |> to figure out why they called the 3 chip sets 1 X 9 simms. :)
- |>
- |> David Shy
- |> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
- |>
-
- O.K. Pay attention now :-),
-
- 1 Mb x 9 stands for 1 M*bit* x 9. Since 8 bits make 1 byte, 1 Mb x 8 becomes a
- total of 1 MByte. The 9th bit is used as parity bit.
-
- For 9-chip 1 Mb x 9 SIMMs it is easy: Every chip contains 1 Mbit of memory, so
- the total is 1 MByte + parity.
-
- The 3-chip 1 Mb x 9 SIMMs contain two 1 Mb x 4 chips, making a total of 1 MByte of
- memory, and 1 parity chip.
-
- In 1 Mb x 9, the 9 stands for "9 columns of memory" and *not* for "9 chips".
-
- Hope this makes things a litle bit more clear!
-
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- E-mail: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl
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