#RAM & Chip questions
15-May-94 02:15:33
Sb: #145728-#RAM & Chip questions
Fm: Paul Idol 71024,3245
To: Ronald B. Romine 70322,1525
Ron-
>If you were going to add 512K, to an 8-bit buss, you would only need two
>256K 8-bit SIMMs. To create two banks of 256K.
>
>If you were going to add 512K, to a 16-bit buss, you would only need two
>256K 8-bit SIMMs. to create one bank of 256K. The two 8-bit SIMMs would
>give 16-bits.
I don't understand this – you have 1 bank of 256k in the second example.
Wouldn't it be 2 8bit chips together giving 1 512k 16bit wide bank?
Paul