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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunews!news From: Mark Blackman <markb> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: EDO SIMMS on a AXPpci motherboard Date: 2 Feb 1996 13:23:29 GMT Organization: University of Reading, U.K. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4et38i$rrd@susscsc1.rdg.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: swpc30.reading.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Just a simple question, do the standard EDO 72-pin SIMMS work on a AXPpci (alpha) motherboard? currently i have a cheap number cruncher in the form of a P5-133 + 64MB (EDO SIMMS) + FreeBSD 2.1 for doing long-winded scattering calculations. However, I would like to use the Alpha for this sort of thing. Can i preserve my investment in memory and switch to an Alpha-275 + 64MB (EDO SIMMS) + NetBSD (another alternative would be a pentium pro motherboard). cheers mark