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The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture and Programming (8086 to Pentium), 1st Edition
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The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture and Programming (8086 to Pentium), 1st Edition

by Lyla B. Das
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
665 pages
23h 2m
English
Pearson India
Content preview from The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture and Programming (8086 to Pentium), 1st Edition
576 THE x86 MICROPROCESSORS
17.7 | Memory – SIMM and DIMM
e theoretical aspect of semiconductor memory was discussed in Chapter 12. Here, we will
see how these theoretical aspects matter, in the world of personal computers.  e amount of
physical memory that can be used for a Pentium Pro chip is 2
36
bytes, where 36 is the number
of address lines it possesses.  is comes to 64 GB of physical memory space, which is a very big
number. Having this much of RAM is prohibitively expensive, and takes a number of DDR
chips and a number of sockets to put them in.  e maximum capacity of current DDRs is only
2/4 GB. In practice, the RAM that most ...
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