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To: Charles R who wrote (120)9/24/1999 1:59:00 AM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 271
 
There is still something funny. There is a hard limit of 32 devices on a Rambus channel since there is a 5 bit device address field in the protocol. If 16 devices per RIMM works then you'd only be able to have two RIMMs anyway since you max out at 32 devices on a channel.

So with 128MBit chips you can only get 512MByte on a channel regardless of how many slots you have.

However, if 16 chips per RIMM doesn't work and you can only have 8 per RIMM then with only two slots you have 384MByte max.

Either something is funny or I should have gone to bed by now. Or else maybe when the smoke clears tomorrow we'll hear that 384 MB Max is the magic number.