> That doesn't seem to work. I took out one SIMM and it complained on
> bootup about needing a fully-populated bank. I can't remember the exact
> wording, but it implied that you had to have at least 4 SIMMS installed.

yes. anything up to 16Mx72 in banks of 4 at less than 80ns.

> Amazing. SGI using standard parts?!? The horror! :)

they took some serious heat for the proprietary 72-pin simms in the indigo3k,
so decided to use standard memory, even at the performance penalty. (the 3k
simms included part of the memory controller.)