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Article #39681Re: Unexpandable megas
From: Thanasis Mitsolides
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 17:22
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 17:22
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>/* acf5:comp.sys.atari.st / danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott) / 7:17 pm Dec 18, 1989 */ >in article <25126@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com says: >> >> Consider that the *cheapest* IBM clone board comes *socketed* for easy memory >> expansion to the maximum RAM the system can utilize... > >Of course even on a 80286 computer w/ say 10Megs of RAM MS-DOS still sees >only 640K (we tested one under windows once for memory use)... Why do people assume that PCs are DOS-ONLY-FOR-EVER-AND-EVER systems? One can run UNIX and X11 any time of the day. (and call DOS in a window, if necessary). Ever heard of DOS Extenders? A 386SX motherboard (20Mhz) that costs $311 comes with sockets for 8Mb. (and 6 expantion slots :-) Thanasis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!cmcl2!acf5!mitsolid From: mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas Message-ID: <370006@acf5.NYU.EDU> Date: 20 Dec 89 17:22:00 GMT References: <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: New York University Lines: 18