NeXT slab questions

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 10:56:32 CDT 2006


Jules Richardson wrote:
> Still not got to the bottom of that one, though. There are only 8 30-pin 
> sockets on the system board (websites lead me to believe that some slab 
> models had 72-pin sockets instead), but the memory info option in the 
> boot firmware curiously shows 32MB in two 16MB banks, and in addition 
> reports half the banks as empty - as though the *system* can physically 
> address more memory, but that the system board just doesn't have the 
> physical sockets to put any more in...

I have a Turbo Color Slab which takes 72-pin SIMMs.  If I had to guess, 
I'd probably guess that only the '040 slabs have 72-pin sockets.

If memory serves, there are four sockets in my slab.

Peace...  Sridhar


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