986-PINC btw ;)
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Roberto Pavan wrote:
> At 09:09 AM 8/6/98 -0700, Brian Edmonds wrote:
> >Kevin Chu <kevin@portal.ca> writes:
> >> According to a technician at Frontier, there is "no such thing" as a
> >> 3.3 V DIMM with 5 V signal tolerance, and there's no such thing as a 5
> >> V DIMM, and in any motherboard if you install both SIMMs and DIMMs,
> >> you'll damage components and the motherboard.
> >
> >My understanding is that most of this is bullshit. I'll grant that PCs
> >may not use 5V DIMMs, given my lack of experience with newer MBs using
> >them, but I bet they exist for some platforms. Sun sure has a wide
> >array of wierd memory -- practically every older model uses a different
> >type.
>
> You can buy 5V DIMMS at Electrosonic in Richmond. They'll cost ya, though.
>
> Your faithful narrator,
> Roberto Pavan rpavan@physics.ubc.ca
>
> Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
> away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
> managed a software project.
> --Andrew Tannenbaum, comp.os.minix, 5 Feb 92 23:23:26 GMT
>