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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS
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Date: 6 Jun 88 19:19:37 GMT
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In article <9528@e.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
> 
> er.. Apple ]['s and vt100's have no need for extra memory.  especially
> the vt100.  

I don't know about the vt100, either, but an Apple//gs with only 256K is
pretty useless.  1Meg is usable, more is better.  Even a //e can benefit
from more memory, if only to use it as RAMdisk or (with AppleWorks) as a
large desktop area.  Both machines are pitiful with only standard memory.

> I don't know about ST's but I suspect that they use 1/4 meg
> chips.  Mac's aren't self-upgradable to my knowledge but again they
> probably use 1/4 meg chips.  

Macs from the Mac Plus on use SIMMS for memory.  They are upgradeable
by the user (although Apple says you gotta take it to a dealer.  1Meg
SIMMs are in just as great demand over there as they are anywhere else.

> Mac II's use
> SIMM's which I understand can come in 1 meg or 1/4 meg models.

Yes, but nobody seems to want to use 256K parts unless they just can't
get the bigger stuff.  (In lower-end Macs it's even worse, since they
are marginal in regard to heat, and the 1Meg parts produce less of it.)

	seh