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- From: lari@saadi.berkeley.edu (Francesco Lari)
- Subject: Re: Architechture questions, ISA, LB, EISA, cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.193936.20067@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Keywords: ISA bus EISA local architechture
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- Organization: UC Berkeley Signal Processing VLSI Group
- References: <1bvimoINNgn9@crcnis1.unl.edu> <Bx5HFu.4DF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov4.225444.10280@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <BxIAn9.76n@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:39:36 GMT
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- In article <BxIAn9.76n@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov4.225444.10280@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- |> >In <Bx5HFu.4DF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- |> >
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- |> >Macs, however, don't do parity checks on the memory and hence use
- |> >32-bit SIMMs. This sounds more like Macintosh memory than 'EISA
- |> >SIMMs' to me. Caveat Emptor.
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- |> Most Macs (Plus, SE, SE30, II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIsi) use 8 bit SIMMs,
- |> 4 at a time. Don't know about Quadras.
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- |>
- |> I think the Wide SIMMs are more often seen in the workstation world.
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- I got a Quadra. 8bit SIMMs, and I never heard of any Mac using Wide SIMMs.
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- FRANCESCO
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