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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:25 Apr 2001 at 10:29:28
Subject:Re: simms

Alan Buxey said,

>> i've oredered two.the guy said he only sells in pairs and they have to be
>> installed in pairs.i presume this is a pc thing 'cos i know that we can mix
>> diferent memory simms.

> its a Pentium thing. almost anything else which takes SIMMs can take them
> as single sticks.... eg Amigas, Samplers, PostScript printers, 486 PC's
> etc

CyberstormPPCs also need paired SIMMs. SIMMs are 32 bit, so anything with
a 64 bit processor needs them in pairs where two SIMMs are treated as a
single 64 bit module.

Cheers

Neil



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