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Article #9089Micronics 486/33 ISA questions
From: Steven Lin
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 17:26
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 17:26
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I've just upgraded to a Micronics 486/33 ISA. It works great, though I
have a couple of questions. Does anyone know
what switch 1-6 does? The documentation seems to say that it selects
the bus speed (between 8Mhz and 11Mhz?). Is this correct?
How about switch 1-7? What does it mean for the video-bios to be
cacheable? I don't think this switch controls relocation of the video
roms to ram because there's already an option to control that in the
the SETUP (ctrl-alt-esc) screen.
My external cache chips have the following numbers: 5C6408-15. I know
these are 15ns chips, but what size are they? 8Kx8? 32Kx8? The manufacturer's
symbol says MT. I don't recognize it.
Does anyone know where the reserved memory lies? On my old Micronics
386-16, it used to sit just below the 16Mb boundary, where QEMM could reclaim
it (QEMM calls this top memory, incidentally). Since my 486 has 16Mb, I doubt
the reserved memory is located there anymore. Where is it now? Note: I really
don't care that much if I can reclaim it. I certainly have more than enough
memory. I'm just curious about its whereabouts.
Thanks.
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