[geeks] Re: I am week

[Kevin]

That would be my guess.  I remember RAM was a PITA to get for
it.  HP sent me the wrong RAM twice.  The modules had to be
the same density or something of that nature ( i remember
very few specifics about that machine, it is still running as
a file/mysql/apache server but i haven't done anything with it
in years.)

There was a small DOS based app that you would run in order to
tell you the current memory setup and what your upgrade
options were.

/KRM

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:58:47 +1200
Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

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