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From: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New SIMMs for the Macintosh IIci???
Summary: What is a Full Page Mode SIMM?
Message-ID: <781@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 89 18:04:11 GMT
References: <1149@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: Dep't of Chemical Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame
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In article <1149@orbit.UUCP>, granteri@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Grant Erickson) writes:
> After a long run down of the Macintosh IIci and the Macintosh Portable and the
> Minnesota Macintosh Users Group meeting, I was enlightend to the fact that in
> the IIci you must use 80 nanosecond F)ull P)age M)ode SIMMs. These must be
> used to take advantage of the burst-mode of the 68030. 
> 
>  [stuff deleted]

What is a F)ull P)age M)ode SIMM?  I know what the 80ns bit is all about,
but what does the FPM bit mean?

More to the point, if I order 80ns SIMMs from the usual list of SIMM vendors,
will they work in a MacIIci?


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