Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhc!edwardm From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: page mode vs nibble mode simms Message-ID: <680014@hpcuhc.HP.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 17:37:09 GMT References: <10635@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 23 Nick Katz writes: > My Next came last December with 16 meg of ram. According to the "monitor" in > 1.0, the first 8 meg are page mode simms, and the second 8 meg are nibble mode > simms. The question is,why are they mixed like this, and does it hurt the > speed of the machine that they are not all page mode (or not all nibble mode, > for that matter)? Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. Nick Katz Just a thought... I'd be interested to hear performance results from a main memory intensive test with these three memory configurations. Care to try? 1 - 8 meg. page mode 2 - 8 meg. nibble mode 3 - 4 meg. page mode AND 4 meg. nibble mode =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Edward McClanahan Hewlett Packard Company Mail Stop 47UE -or- edwardm%hpda@hplabs.hp.com 19447 Pruneridge Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: (408)447-5651