At 11:34 AM 2/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
>On 23 Feb 99, at 7:26, Earl Truss wrote:
>
>> At 08:59 PM 2/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>> >>   Bank 0     Bank 1      Bank 2       Bank 3     Total
>> >>  16M x 9      None      16M x 36       None      128MB
>>
>> >appears that parity memory is required.
>>
>> The requirement for parity memory comes from the "x 36" in the above.  If
>> non-parity memory was OK, it would say "x 32" instead.  The above looks
>> like a mistake to me.  I don't see how you could get 128MB without using a
>> 64MB SIMM in bank 2/3.
>
>  Since an x32/x36 SIMM is FOUR bytes wide, a 16M x 36 *is* 64 MB total.
>
Duh.  I get it now.  I see why I did not see it before.  It is not 16
megabytes as I was reading it.  It comes from the following list:

 1M x 36 =>  4MB
 2M x 36 =>  8MB
 4M x 36 => 16MB
 8M x 36 => 32MB
16M x 36 => 64MB

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