gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/13/85)
In article <698@hou2e.UUCP>, ksl@hou2e.UUCP (a hacker) writes: > > Eventually 1 megabit chips will become commonly available > >and AT&T should produce a single expansion card that has 2 meg on it. > >At present it's only a rumour though... > > For those who haven't heard, AT&T has started production on their > 1 Mb chip (I read it in a local newspaper). I've seen this press release before. It could be true. The people who *I* talked to before said they'd never seen any samples. Maybe AT&T is producing 1MB rams and just not selling them to anybody. Badly done marketing hype -- consider it standard? :-)
slb@bnl44.UUCP (Sanford L. Barr @ Brookhaven National Labs. Long Island, N.Y.) (09/30/85)
> In article <698@hou2e.UUCP>, ksl@hou2e.UUCP (a hacker) writes: > > > Eventually 1 megabit chips will become commonly available > > >and AT&T should produce a single expansion card that has 2 meg on it. > > >At present it's only a rumour though... > > > > For those who haven't heard, AT&T has started production on their > > 1 Mb chip (I read it in a local newspaper). > > I've seen this press release before. It could be true. The people > who *I* talked to before said they'd never seen any samples. > > Maybe AT&T is producing 1MB rams and just not selling them to anybody. Ok folks, Time to smell the coffe. In the standard configuration on the AT&T UNIX PC 512k expansion board the chips are 64k bit chips. Now to get an expansion board that will hold 2 MEGs of RAM you'll need to replace those 64k bit chips with 256k bit chips!...NOT 1Megabit versions ... Replacing the 64k bits with the 1Mb will give you a total of 8MEG RAM on a board! The PC can only handle 4 MEG online! -- Sanford L. Barr | Voice phone: (516) 736-4155 Famous designer of the Write Only Memory.| Address (USnail): -- -- | ..!decvax!mcnc!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!slb | Almagmated Tech. ...slb@bnl44.ARPA | 39 Royalston La. ...slb@bnl44.UUCP | S. Setauket, N.Y. 11720 | ATTN: Sanford L. Barr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?"