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Re: What kind of SIMMs for Gosling MB?

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From: Stephen D Spratley
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 00:00
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Jeffery,

Your Gosling requires parity memory, which is 36-bit. 32-bit memory is 
non-parity. So 16MB SIMMS would be 4 x 36. Whether true parity or logic parity 
should not make a difference, except that true parity (my preference) would 
report a parity error if one were found, whereas logic parity can never find 
such an error. I was told by ZEOS that the board supports any combination of 
SIMMS, and have personally run with the following combinations (2 x 1), (2 x 1 
+ 2 x 4), (3 x 4), and currently (2 x 16). It is not necessary to install 
them in pairs, either, since the Gosling is a 486 motherboard. You may want to 
keep two of the 4MB SIMMS, to total 40MB, unless you are fortunate enough to 
get a reasonable price for them.

Regards,
Stephen


In article <changi0.9m.2B0t8x$0cI@jeffos2.randomc.com>, 
jeffos2@randomc.com[JefferySwagger] says...
>
>I have a 486DX2 Gosling MB that came from Zeos with 4 4MB SIMMS for total of
>16MB installed memory.  I am thinking of replacing this with 2 16MB SIMMS for 
>a
>total of 32MB memory.  However, I am totally confused as to exactly the type 
o
>f
>SIMMs to get.  They seem to be available in all sorts of variations, i.e.  32
>bit, 36 bit, true parity, no parity, logical parity, etc.  So would someone
>please tell me *exactly* what is is I need?  Also, if anybody has a
>recommendation of manufactures to avoid, or to look for, I would appreciate 
it
>.
>As I run OS/2 Warp exclusively on this machine, good quality RAM is more
>important to me than saving a couple of bucks on an inferior product.
>
>TIA
>-----
>Jeffery Swagger
>

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spratley@millcomm.com          |        nor the battle to the strong.
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From: spratley@millcomm.com (Stephen D Spratley)
Subject: Re: What kind of SIMMs for Gosling MB?
Date: 1996/06/04
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