19 Sep
2004
19 Sep
'04
6:39 a.m.
Sure the buss width matters if you are measuring memory as it is NORMALY
measured, in Bytes, not Bits.
No it doesn't.
Suppose I take 16 of the 64K * 1 DRAM chips (4164s). I wire them up to an
8 bit databus with the apporporate control electronics so I get 128K 8
bit locations. That stores 128K bytes.
I now wire them up differently to a 16 bit data bus system. I haev 64K 16
bit locations. That's _still_ 128K bytes of storage.
-tony