Re: Determining amount of RAM on a board?

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
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> In article <JXmf7.31513$vW2.13941834@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com>,
> Ernest <ernestls@home.com> wrote:
> >
> >"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote in message
> >news:EHmf7.38773$K6.15676876@news2...
> >
> >> Most chips will have something in the line of 44xx or 41xx
> >> The 44 series is 4 bits wide and 41 series is 1 bit wide.
> >> The older computers used for the most part 1 bit wide chips.
> >> 4104  - 4k x 1
> >> 4108 -  8k x 1
> >> 4116  -16k x 1
> >> 4164 - 64k x 1
> >
> >So what would a bank of eight 4164np-20 chips be?
>
> It would be 64K x 8 bits = 64 Kbytes !!!!

8 bits to a byte, right so...

64,000 divided by 8 = 8000, or 8k bytes per chip... times 8 chips = 64k
bytes.

I just needed to think about it for a sec. Sorry to upset you so much, Paul.
It was only a question.

E.