Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:57:07 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Memory configuration of ftp.cdrom.com Message-ID: <199601300957.LAA24210@grumble.grondar.za>
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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
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