Richard.Petty@f54.n382.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Richard Petty) (08/14/89)
I know a few days have elapsed, but I think I have something worthy to add
to the discussion on SIMM speeds.
I work for Motorola in Austin, Texas. We do final test on all the 020's
and 030's (and yes, 040's).
I don't think the following constitutes a trade secret:
If we are unable to ship enough 16MHz units to satisfy demand, we mark
20 or 25MHz units as 16s ("downgrading") and ship 'em!
In fact, I don't think any DRAM (memory) or CPU manufacturer produces slow
units on purpose. We produce the fastest CPUs we can, and do a sort test
in order to determine what they are capable of.
Hope this helps.
Richard Petty
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