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Article #19586Re: Have I done something stupid? (a SIMM question)
From: Frank Calloway
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13
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I'd say if it works reliably, then use it. From what I've read, the various speeds of memory chips are selected by testing large batches and then labeling the chips appropriately. If a manufacturer needs slow chips to sell but has only faster ones on hand, it's easy to simply label the fast ones as being slower than they are and sell them. I needed four more megabytes of RAM for my 386-33 but had only 80 ns. chips on hand (the first four megabytes was 70 ns.). The first set of four that I tried gave me parity errors under Windows 3.1, but the second has worked fine for several months. Frank Calloway
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From: calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13:12 GMT Subject: Re: Have I done something stupid? (a SIMM question) Message-ID: <12070022@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpfcso!hplvec!calloway Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware References: <ETOBKKC.93Jan21073459@pluto.eto.ericsson.se> Lines: 13