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In article <2040@leah.Albany.Edu> jh0576@leah.Albany.Edu (Joe Houghtaling) writes:
>In article <4002@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>   [in response to an inquiry on mixing speeds of memory chips]
-> Bullshit.

>Please, if you can't make a constructive addition to the net, at least 
>don't be insulting.

I rise to Roy Smith's defense.  That IS a constructive comment -- to the
effect that: the folklore that says you can't mix memory speeds (subject to
the requirement that each memory module is itself adequately fast) -- is
Bullshit.

Now I know that one doesn't have to be an EE to own and operate a computer.
But we don't have to be afraid of them, either.  There is a lot of tolerance
in the design of a computer just so spot shortages of a particular chip, or
a low-tolerance part, won't make the machine unbuildable.  That's why so many
(IBM) clone makers can push nominal 16 MHz machines to 20MHz -- as long as
you don't get them too hot.

If you want to cause trouble, why don't we start the rumor that using faster
memory chips will invalidate the FCC clearance because the faster rise times
radiate more...

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)