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32MB Avant EDO, 72-Pin SIMM no-Parity Memory
  • Item:8X32E60TLC16DX
  • 32MB EDO SIMM
  • non-parity
$19.60
32MB Avant FPM, 72-Pin SIMM no-Parity Memory
  • Item:8X32R60TL616X
  • 32MB FPM SIMM
  • non-parity
$19.60
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What is FPM Memory?

Prior to newer forms of dynamic random access memory, FPM DRAM (Fast Page Mode DRAM) was the most common kind of DRAM in personal computers. Short for Fast Page Mode RAM, a type of DRAM that allows faster access to data in the same row or page. Page-mode memory works by eliminating the need for a row address if data is located in the row previously accessed. It is sometimes called page mode memory. Most Pentium systems from 1995 and earlier used FPM Memory.

What is EDO Memory?

(Extended Data Out RAM) is a type of dynamic RAM chip that improved the performance of fast page mode (FPM) memory in the mid 1990s. As a subset of fast page mode, it could be substituted for page mode chips. However, if the memory controller was not designed for the faster EDO chips, the performance remained the same as fast page mode. EDO memory was superseded by SDRAM.