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To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org>, ftp@wcarchive.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Memory configuration of ftp.cdrom.com 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:51:27 -0800
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>>>From ftp://wcarchive.cdrom.com/wcarchive.configuration:
>>>
>>> One 150Mhz P6 CPU ("Pentium Pro")
>>> 256MB of main memory (72pin, 16mb x 36bit x 60nsec SIMMS X 4)
>>
>>    How do four 16MB SIMM's make 256MB of RAM?  Or are those really
>>64MB SIMM's (16M*36 bits)?  Just curious.  :)
>
>   It's a lower-case "b"...meaning 'bits'...and 36bits wide. 64MBytes/SIMM.

   Okay, I just changed it to:

256MB of main memory (72pin, 16M x 36bits x 60nsec SIMMS X 4)

   ...happy now? :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project