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From: Christopher Bazzie <bazzie@coe.wvu.edu>
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Subject: DSP Ram upgrade info
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 14:45:34 EST
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I was messing with my computer the other day (changing things around, as
usual) when I notced two very familiar looking chips on my Aria card.
As I examined the chips more closely, I realized where I had seen them
before- they were the same chips I used when I was upgrading my system's
cache ram.  I wandered off and looked through my junk box, and
eventually found a couple of other cache srams laying around.  I plugged
them in, and lo and behold, I now had 16 kwords of ram instead of 8.
So, it looks like the memory needed to do a memory upgrade on an Aria is
just plain old 20 nanosecond cache ram.  I used 2 32k by 8 chips to get
my increase from 8 to 16 kwords, so now my question is, just how much
memory is a kword, and what do I have to add to get 40 kwords instead of
16?  I assume maybe tossing my 32k srams in favor of 4 64k srams?  Any
guesses?  ON a related note, now that I have a little more ram (and hope
to figure out how to get even more soon) how do I take advanage of the
dsp applications?  I downloaded the .dsp files from the FTP site, but I
don't know what to do with them now that I have them.  Will they even
work with 16 kwords?

Many thanks for any help,
Chris

