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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:41:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Joerg Czeranski <jc@joerch.org>
Cc:        obrien@NUXI.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: relative alpha speed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909012039340.366-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <5yqaTz5zL$4fQ$1@joerch.org>

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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Joerg Czeranski wrote:

> David O'Brien wrote:
> > > PC164SX correctly set up (particularly, I am not certain about the way I
> > > have my RAM installed)
> > 
> > I was reading in the NetBSD/Alpha lists that the PC164 board must have
> > all of its memory slots filled to get the memory bandwidth of a 164LX.
> > Can anyone here comment?  (I might easily be blowing it out my ass WRT
> > to the way I'm refering to things here)
> 
> The PC164 (= AlphaPC 164) supports 128bit on the memory bus with four
> of the PS/2 slots filled, and 256bit with all eight PS/2 slots filled.
> 
> The 164SX (= PC164SX = AlphaPC 164SX) and the 164LX only have one
> possible bus configuration regardless of the number of slots used.

Yes, but page 1-3 of the manual, section 1.1.2, at the end of the
paragraph refers to main memory as a 128 bit array.  This makes me think
that the PC164SX's memory is 128 bits wide.

I'm using 72 bit wide PC100 SDRAMs, 64MB X 2.

> 
> joerch
> 
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