From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 30 01:58:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA25676 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA25658 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:58:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24210; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:57:07 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199601300957.LAA24210@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host mark@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: Memory configuration of ftp.cdrom.com Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:57:07 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao wrote: > >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. :) Those are 64MByte simms. They are 16MBit by 36 bits - ie 4 bytes + 4bits of parity wide. Expensive suckers in South Africa :-( :-( :-( BTW - Mb = Megabit, MB = Megabyte - the above mb means millibit. Hmm... 16 x 36 x 4 = 2304 millibits x 1/1000 = 2.304 bits. You guys are running WC's ftp server in just over 2 bits of ram! This is a FreeBSD enhancement I would like to see in current. What are you using? Quantum states of the atom? ;-) M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key