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Article #1166Re: NeXTcube Turbo SIMM Slots
From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 06:43
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 06:43
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In article <1992Apr7.151703.9710@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes: > I still think it's a stingy choice to only use four SIMM slots > for the cube Turbo board. Since the primary choice, economically > speaking, would be 4 and 8 MB SIMMs at this time, the effective > max RAM is 32 MB, which is a (another) step backward for the new > board. I think so too, but there were a lot of considerations... Less slots mean faster accesses and less cost. The disadvantages will eventually go away once fatter simms become more mainstream. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com Andrew Loewenstern | "listen: there's a hell of a good universe Cube Technologies, Inc. | next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!sarah!cook!psinntp!psinntp!cubetech.com!imladris!andrew From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: NeXTcube Turbo SIMM Slots Message-ID: <1992Apr8.064313.22172@cubetech.com> Sender: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com References: <1992Apr7.151703.9710@cs.yale.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:43:13 GMT Lines: 20