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Re: SIMMS in SS2

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From: Steve Simmons
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1991 14:53
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In v10n13, phillips@sparky.lcs.mit.edu (Mike Phillips) writes:

>We just got a bunch of SS2's and were having trouble figuring out if the
>4Mbyte simms from our SS1's would work.  I think the official Sun answer
>(as far as I could figure out from our salesperson) is no.

I have spoken to several DRAM vendors at Uniforum, and all say that stock
80ns 4MB SIMMS work fine in the SS-2.  Since most reputable vendors sell
on a free-replacement-if-defective basis, you should be just fine even if
individual compenents are out-of-spec.
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From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
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Subject: Re: SIMMS in SS2
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