On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > An excellent question, but it is exactly the same socket as the 72-pin RAM > SIMMs below it. I even labouriously counted all the pins on the board socket > this morning just in case I'd missed something, and it's 72. The service > manual even warns against installing RAM there. > > Is this actually a *non*-standard thing? I know Apple had all kinds of boffo > L2 cache configurations for the beige Power Macs but Apple's Apple and > certainly larger than Alpha Micro.
I'd expect SRAM rather than DRAM on a cache SIMM. Cache memory is supposed to be fast after all. Otherwise why bother? -- caching only complicates things, so there has to be benefit in return. Maciej