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Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (was long)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1988 02:22
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In article <6483@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> elm@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (ethan miller) writes:
>... I'd say the 45 chips can't
>include the memory.  There must be 64 1Mx1 bit chips to get 8MB on board, and
>that's already more than 65...

If you assume that "chips" is loose language for "packages", note that the
most compact way of packaging RAMs is in SIMMs, which put 8 or so RAMs in
a single package.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (was long)
Message-ID: <1988Oct16.022222.29425@utzoo.uucp>
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