[geeks] Re: I am week

[Gavin Hubbard]

>I bought a Vectra dual PPro 200 new back in 1996.  

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>
>I remember buying it mostly due to an article in Byte that
>stated something about the bus bandwidth between the memory
>and the CPUs being higher than it's competitors (i was mostly
>comparing it to ALR's offerings at the time), but i don't
>remember much about it and have no idea if there is any truth
>to it anyway.  For what it's worth, i do remember that the
>DIMMS (ECC) had to be installed in pairs.  This was
>somewhat uncommon at the time.

It sounds like the Vectra must have had an 2:1 interleave on the memory
bus. That will explain the enhanced memory bandwidth and memory loading
pattern.

Regards,

Gavin