SUMMARY: SIMMs for SPARCstation 10

From: Todd Pfaff (todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Wed Sep 02 1992 - 09:32:38 CDT


Yesterday I asked:

> What types of SIMMs can be used in a SPARCstation 10 (speed and density)?
>
> Is memory added in increments of 4 SIMMs of the same type, as with the
> earlier SPARCstations?
>
> A model 41 system comes with 32MB; is this 4 8MB SIMMs?
>
> I'll summarize.

Thanks for all the quick replies. The answers are best summarized in the
first reply which came from Tim Smith:

> From: tgsmith@spdev.East.Sun.COM (Timothy G. Smith - Special Projects)
>
> < What types of SIMMs can be used in a SPARCstation 10 (speed and
> < density)?
>
> The SS10 uses a brand new simm design. The simms are not off the
> shelf; they were designed by sun to meet some fairly agressive memory
> bandwidth requirements. The simms are 144 bits wide (128 bits plus 16
> bits of ECC), 16MB or 64MB deep, and run at 80ns.
>
> < Is memory added in increments of 4 SIMMs of the same type, as with the
> < earlier SPARCstations?
>
> Memory is added in 16 or 64 MB increments.
>
> < A model 41 system comes with 32MB; is this 4 8MB SIMMs?
>
> Nope, its two 16MB simms.
>
> BTW, I seriously doubt that third party simms are available yet.
>
>
> hth,
> --tim

Apparently, there is an article about SS10 memory in the September issue of
SunWorld magazine.

No, we haven't received the SS10 yet, we're just planning for the future :-)

Thanks also to:

delphys@ocean.cc.mcgill.ca (David Holmes)
pln@egret1.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
jdr@mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray)
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
chuck-strickland@orl.mmc.com
Tim Beyea <beyea@ERC.MsState.Edu>

and those yet to reply.

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