Re: Adding SIMMs to SS1 - Summary

From: Andrew McGregor (physadm@phys.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Wed Jul 21 1993 - 20:43:53 CDT

In article 190793161224@qd.bus.utexas.edu, tom@sparta.bus.utexas.edu (Tom Linsley) writes:
>Thanks to the helpful netters who responded to my posting about
>adding memory to an SS1. A couple of other netters asked me to
>post a summary, since they were also interested in adding RAM to
>their Sparcs.
>
>One respondent wondered whether 28MB would be a valid memory
>configuration, but another was successful in upgrading to this
>memory size. (That's encouraging, Ken!)

There is a problem with 28Mb, though. It produces a very slow machine,
much slower than 24Mb. We found it much better to leave out the last
4Mb.

>Tom Linsley NRA - ILA - TSRA
>tom@sparta.bus.utexas.edu
>CBA/GSB Computer Services CBA 1.324 (512) 471-5446
>The University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 

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Andrew McGregor,
Physics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
adm@phys.canterbury.ac.nz

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