16 Dec
2008
16 Dec
'08
1:09 a.m.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Perhaps there were in the early days, but I don't
recall many SIMMs
with DIPs, and those I do recall had 9 chips, not 3. There was this
cycle of lots of smaller chips rather than few large chips, then the
economic balance would tip, but that started with 256K SIMMs.
Many early SIMMs were DIP based. One popular configuration was two 1Mx4
DIPs, or two 1Mx4 DIPs plus a 1Mx1.
They were even available socketed! (to use the DIPs that are now getting
scarcer)
The 9 DIP SIMMs were generally thought to be more reliable.