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- From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
- Subject: Re: How to add RAM to 10 MB in LC?
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- References: <Dec.13.02.07.31.1992.29420@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <Bz7rvM.6CB@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Dec16.225658.810@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:34:49 GMT
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- rees@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Rees Griffiths) writes:
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- > We just received a 4 Mb LC II and before turning it on I upgraded the
- >VRAM to 512K. To my horror the 2 SIMM slots were empty. I thought damm
- >we've been sent a 2 Mb machine. Wrong on starting it there is 4096K
- >available. However the maximum RAM size is still 10Mb. So when you put in
- >the two 4 Mb SIMMS, where does 2 Mb go???????
-
- The LCII has 4Mb soldered to the motherboard and 2 SIMM slots. Adding a pair of
- 4Mb SIMMs would give 12Mb of physical memory, but some sort of limitation in
- the machine's hardware(?) allows it to address only 10Mb of memory. Strange
- but true...
-
- Nick
- monitn@rpi.edu
-
- >Rees
-
- >_________________________________________________________________________
- >Snail: Rees Griffiths, Computing Officer
- > School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
- > N.S.W. Australia 2109
- >Phone: (02) 805 8202 Facsimile: (02) 805 8245 Intnl +61 2 805....
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- >email "rees@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au" <<<<43>>>>
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