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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:45:52 EST
- From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92315.134552DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Architechture questions, ISA, LB, EISA, cards
- References: <1bvimoINNgn9@crcnis1.unl.edu> <Bx5HFu.4DF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- <CARL.92Nov3161052@atlantis.Cayman.COM> <BxIA7o.6C4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BxIA7o.6C4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Iskandar Taib) says:
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- >In article <CARL.92Nov3161052@atlantis.Cayman.COM| carl@Cayman.COM (Carl )
- >Heinzl
- >writes:
- >|
- >|Beware!!! There are *32* bit simms AS WELL AS *36* bit simms. The
- >|*32* bit simms are Mac compatible but will NOT work in a PC that
- >|checks parity!!!
-
- >Interesting. Thanks!
-
- >Which Macs take these by the way? The IICi's and IISi's take the
- >8 bit SIMMs. Quadras perhaps? Or maybe Amigoid 3000s....
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- AMiga 3000 uses ZIPs, but the A4000 uses 32-bit SIMMs. The wider SIMMS
- are becoming more widely used, and I suspect that all Pentium systems
- will use them, because of the 64-bit data bus.
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