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echo: locuser
to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1996-06-25 06:13:00
subject: ram

PE> I went and bought another 32-meg, for a cost of $360 today.
PE> Decided to let my hair down! I now have a 20-meg HPFS386
PE> disk cache and a 14 meg FAT cache and 2 meg CDROM cache.

RS> You didnt say exactly what you bought SIMM type wise.

PE> Well, it was 60ns fastgate, but I was shocked when I
PE> put the RAM in, it was a lot bigger than the other stuff.
PE> I suspect that it is parity RAM instead of NP.  :-(  ???

Thats unlikely. More likely its just using lower density chips.

You DO mean that its just got more chips per SIMM dont you ?

Parity doesnt add all that many more, 4/36 ratio only.
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