Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mailrus!iuvax!ndcheg!jeff 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 Lines: 20 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? -- Jeff Kantor US Mail: Dept. of Chemical Engineering internet: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu University of Notre Dame uucp: iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!jeff Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA