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- From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- Subject: Re: II vx Vs Ci
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <noah-121192172533@noah.apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:26:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.122051.33045@fourd.com>
- Organization: (not the opinions of) Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov12.122051.33045@fourd.com>, Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
- wrote:
- > The External bus width of the ][vx is not 16bits. If it were it probably
- > wouldn't be able to address 68 megs of RAM. I think what you meant was ...
- > External bus speed ... 16mhz not 16 bits .... there is a BIG difference. Does
- > this sound correct?? Can anyone from Apple confirm this??? Joe C.
-
- You're correct, the bus is 32 bits and everything except the CPU, FPU, and
- cache are 16 MHz.
-
- But, being 16 bits wouldn't limit addressable memory. This is the data bus
- -- the address bus is separate.
-
- noah
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