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From: Karl Schendel
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.971223194113.21985A-100000@lios.apana.org.au>,
Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

> In comp.sys.sun.hardware you write:
> 
> >I just got ahold of a Sparc 2 and I have a few questions about it:
>...
> >The only simm's that the sparc2 could take were 1meg's and 4meg's,
> >right? if not, what all could they take?
> 
> SS2's won't work with 1 meg SIMM's. You need 4 meg, 30 pin, parity SIMM's
> that are 80 ns or faster.

Actually, this is not the case.  You *can* put 1 meg simms in an SS2,
and at my previous job we had many SS2's with various brands of 1 meg
simms in them.  You do need true-parity simms whether it's 1M or 4M.

Karl

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