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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:41:24 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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 
Message-ID:  <199601300741.XAA02116@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:30:48 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130022834.14114C-100000@zip.io.org> 

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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.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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