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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
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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

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